Athena

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Athena

• Bright eyed warrior maiden

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Athena

• daughter of Zeus (and Metis)
• Goddess of Athens
• PanAthenaia
• Shield deity of Mycenae
• dressed in armor

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Birth of Athena
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epithets

• Owl-eyed
• Bright-eyed
• Grey-eyed
• Parthenos (maidenly asexual)
• Polias (of the city state)
• Boulaia (of the counsel)
• Pallas
• Promachos

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Athena Tritogeneia

• River or lake
• Reared by Triton

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Pallas Athena

• Tritons daughter Pallas
• Playmate
• War games
• Argument
• Zeus intervention
• Athenas distress
• Athena makes wooden statue (palladium)

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Palladium

• Olive wood statue
• Falls from sky
• Lands in Troy
• Token of protection
• Stolen by Diomedes Odysseus
• Troy falls

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attributes

• armor
• aegis
• gorgon
• owl
• snake
• olive

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Nashville Athena Parthenos
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Goddess of Civilization

• wool-working
• Arachnes boastful claim
• Arachne suggests a weaving contest

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The contest

• Athenas tapestry
• contest for Athens
• Arachnes tapestry
• Sexual exploits of the gods
• flawless
• Athenas anger
• Arachnes suicide
• Athenas pity

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Goddess of Civilization

• Carpentry
• 1st chariot
• 1st ship (Argo)
• Trojan Horse
• Diaulos (double-flute)

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Argo builds ship
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Trojan Horse
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diaulos
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Goddess of Civilization

• cultivated olive
• Her gift to Athens

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Goddess of Civilization

• arts of war
• strategy
• tactics
• discipline
• war dance

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Goddess of Civilization

• patroness of heroes
• Heracles
• Jason
• Odysseus (wily)
• Perseus

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Herakles Atlas
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The Argonauts
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Odysseus Nausikaa
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Perseus slays Medusa