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• Daughter of Zeus and Metis
• Zeus swallowed Metis.
• Afraid of a strong boy in Metis
• Hephaestus (or Prometheus) opened
Zeus’s head with ax.
• Out come Athena.
Warrior, Patron and
Protector
• The enemy of Troy – sided with Greeks during the war
• Patron goddess of the Athens
• Protector of
• Civilized life
• Agriculture
• Handicrafts
• Fierce and ruthless
So Wise, Athena
is
• Virgin
• Was called the
• Chief
• Maiden
• Parthenos
• Embodiment of
• Wisdom
• Reason
• Purity
• The personification of wisdom
Big Brain
• Inventor of the flute (aulos)
• The olive was her tree.
• Also created by her
• the plow, rake, yoke, and bridle to farmers
• the chariot and designed the first ship
• first taught the science of mathematics
• household arts:
• spinning
• Weaving
• cooking
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Favorite child of Zeus, Athena was born out of his head. The reason for that is because Athena’s mother, Metis
was swallowed by Zeus. Zeus swallowed Metis because he was afraid that the child Metis was pregnant with
was going to be a strong man who will overthrow Zeus. One of Zeus’s kids, Hephaestus (or Prometheus),
opened Zeus’s head with an ax and out came Athena. Fierce and ruthless, Athena springs out as a battle goddess
and becomes the protector of civilized life, agriculture, and handicrafts. Additionally, being the war goddess, yet
the embodiment of purity, she was a goddess of severe beauty, different than Aphrodite.
Work Cites
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Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. Back Bay Books, 1998, p. 29
Howatson, M.C., editor. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. New Edition ed., Oxford University
Press, 1991, p. 70.
The Hutchinson Editors. "Athena." RM Education, Ltd, Abingdon, 2020. eLibrary,
https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/2459479485?accountid=49639.Bottom of Form
