Athena

Parents

Zeus and Metis

Birth

sprang from Zeus’s head fully armed after he swallowed Metis

Polias

of the city

Parthenos

maiden

Promachos

front-fighter

Ergane

worker

Chalcioecus

of the bronze house

Glaucopis

shining eyeds

ymbols

owl, olive tree, spear, aegis, helmet

character

tied to urban, civic life

1st area

practical intelligence and problem solving innovations

Oversees crafts and technology

weaving, carpentry, metallurgy, shipbuilding

invents bridle, plough

construct ships and structures Argo, Trojan horse

Patron

women (Domestic) and men (professional workshop)

Athena in Warfare

discipline, restraint and strategy

tactics

ambushes, psychological warfare

Inventions in warfare

pyrrhic dance, phalanx tactics, salpinx (War trumpet)

symbol in warfare

rational control over pure aggression

Athena and Hercales

clever solutions: redirect river, bronze rattles for birds

Perseus

mirror-shield, Medusa’s head on aegis

Odysseus

closest mortal counterpart, polymetis

Athena aids

in Trojan Horse, cunning over force