Athena
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- Athena the god of wisdom and war. A virgin deity. Athena surpassed everybody in both of her main domains.
- Roman name Minerva
- On learning that Metis' next child may overthrow him, zeus swallowed his first wife who was already pregnant with Athena. When the time came, Zeus started feeling tremendous headaches, as even he couldn't bear them, Hephaestus struck him with an axe snd lo and behold Athens leapt out of Zeus' head. Fully armed and with a cry to mighty snd fearsome that Uranus and Gaea were shaken to their bones with terror, Zeus was delighted and full of pride.
- Known for protecting civilized life, she was he goddess of the city.
- Athena is usually depicted as a majestic lady, with a beautiful, but stern face, unsmiling full lips, grey eyes and a graceful build, emanating power and authority. She is always regally clad in either a chiton or a full armor.
- Athena was one of the most important olympian gods and she had many functions. Unsurprisingly, she was known under many different epithets. Some of the most famous were "Virgin", "Pallas", "The unwearying one", "They one of the city", 'The one with gleaming eyes" and "the one who fights in front"
- One ofAthena's iconic symbols is the owl represents the wisdom that Athen possesses
- okay? thank you?
- I trust you told hold my thunderbolt.
- Athena you're my favorite child.
- Athena was a fierce and ruthless warrior. In the odyssey, she was angry and unforgiving. In the course of the Trojan War, she struck Ajax with madness.
- Here it's a Krotala this should help
- Athena i have no idea how i'm going to get rid of these birds.
- Athena was one of the three virgin goddesses. The virgin goddesses or maiden goddesses do not marry or bear any children, the usual way or not at all. Athena was known as Parthenos ("virgin") because she was believed to remain perpetually a virgin.
- Athena never displayed hot-headedness and always viewed war primarily as a mean to to resolve conflict and seek justice and righteousness: unlike her conlict-loving brother Ares. The greeks regarded Athena with much higher esteem than Ares due to this. Athena was also referred to as promachos by the ancient Greeks because of her patricitc, defensive and strategic virtues in warfare.
- Zeus considered Athena to be his favorite child. Zeus trusted her to wield the the AEGIS and his thunderbolt.
- Athena helped Hercules complete his dangerous and difficult twelve labors, specifically his 6th labor. In the 6th labor, Hercules had to scare off the stymphalian birds from lake stymphalia. These birds were a menace and would terrorize those who lived in the area. To score the birds, Athena created a noise making clapper called krotala. To scare the birds, Hercules used the krotala to scare off the birds.
- Known for many years as a war goddess she helped prepare men for the fighting ahead and provided them with the necessary tools and supplies. She was unlike other gods and goddesses from ancient greek tales who thought anything was worth a fight. Goddess Athena believed that people should only go to war as a last resort and only if they fought for a noble or just a cause.
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