Her Roman name is Minerva. Link will appear as Athena: https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net - Greek Gods & Goddesses, September 19, 2014, © Greek Gods and Goddesses 2010 - 2020 | About | Contact | Privacy, Athena: https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net, Athena, Athene, Pallas Athena, Pallas Athene, Owls, Olive trees, Snakes, Aegis, Armor, Helmets, Spears, Gorgoneion, Artemis, Aphrodite, the Muses, the Graces, Ares, Apollo, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Minos, Perseus, Porus, Athena was the Goddess of War, the female counterpart of. Athena then took her lost friend's name, and was then on known as Pallas Athena.
Athena was probably a pre-Hellenic goddess and was later taken over by the Greeks.
She taught humans skills such as weaving, sewing, farming, and metalwork. Arachne's had a controversial picture of the Olympians on it, and Athena turned her into a spider so she would weave forever.. Athena, grieving for her friend, carved a statue with the countenance of Pallas, and placed it in her sacred temple. She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, so that she emerged full-grown from his forehead.
Zeus trusted her to wield the aegis and his thunderbolt. As a young goddess, Athena befriended a daughter of the sea god Triton, Pallas.
Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! As the guardian of the welfare of kings, Athena became the goddess of good counsel, of prudent restraint and practical insight, as well as of war. Smashing Zeus' head with his mighty ax, Hephaistos split Zeus' skull, and out sprung Athena, dressed in full battle armor. Also in the Iliad, Zeus, the chief god, specifically assigns the sphere of war to Ares, the god of war, and Athena. Athena was the Goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason. She granted victory to those who deserved it. She may not have been described as a virgin originally, but virginity was attributed to her very early and was the basis for the interpretation of her epithets Pallas and Parthenos. Her rivalry with Poseidon continues when Athena caught lovers Poseidon and Medusa showing affection in her own temple. Typical depictions of Athena show her in a dress or armor with a helmet sitting on her head. On learning that Metis’ next child may overthrow him, Zeus swallowed his first wife who was already pregnant with Athens. Athena’s association with the acropolises of various Greek cities probably stemmed from the location of the kings’ palaces there. In Homer’s Iliad, Athena, as a war goddess, inspires and fights alongside the Greek heroes; her aid is synonymous with military prowess. Athena Parthenos, full-scale replica of Phidias's chryselephantine sculpture by Alan LeQuire, 1982; in a full-scale replica of the Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee. There was an alternative story that Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of counsel, while she was pregnant with Athena, so that Athena finally emerged from Zeus.
Athena appears in Homer’s Odyssey as the tutelary deity of Odysseus, and myths from later sources portray her similarly as helper of Perseus and Heracles (Hercules).