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Athena is a 2022 French epic action drama film directed and co-written by Romain Gavras. The film stars Dali Benssalah , Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon , Ouassini Embarek, and Alexis Manenti . The film had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on 9 September 2022, where it competed for the Golden Lion award, [ 1 ] and ...
Athena is a 1995 novel by the Irish author John Banville, the third in a series that started with The Book of Evidence and continued with Ghosts. [1] These three form the "Frames" trilogy, linked by the theme of paintings. The novel is centred around Morrow, a self-styled art expert. [2] He is asked by a businessman called Morden to ...
The Acropolis at Athens (1846) by Leo von Klenze.Athena's name probably comes from the name of the city of Athens. [4] [5]Athena is associated with the city of Athens. [4] [6] The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted to her worship. [5]
Arachne (/ ə ˈ r æ k n iː /; from Ancient Greek: Ἀράχνη, romanized: Arákhnē, lit. 'spider', cognate with Latin araneus) [1] is the protagonist of a tale in Greek mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story. [2]
This story about Athena and Pallas inspired a yearly festival in Libya dedicated to the goddess. A passage by Herodotus recounts this custom: [ 2 ] "Next to these Machlyes are the Auseans; these and the Machlyes, separated by the Triton, live on the shores of the Tritonian lake.
Athena becomes the goddess girl of wisdom due to her intelligence and good judgment. In Athena the Wise she develops a crush on Heracles, a strong mortal who transfers to the Academy. Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of fertility, flowers, and spring, loves flowers and can make them grow with a single touch of her finger ...
The story began on Jan. 14, 2009, when Calusinski, then 22, was working as a teacher's assistant at the Minee Subee day care in Lincolnshire, a suburb of Chicago. Late that afternoon, Calusinski ...
The story is the basis of an earlier opera, Il pomo d'oro, in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti, with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611–1668). Aphrodite taunts Hera and Athena with the Apple, relief in the Achilleion, Corfu.