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Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, and was also the patron goddess of heroes. Odysseus was a great hero among the Greeks, and so had Athena’s favor and aid in many of his exploits. She was a key goddess in the story of the Odyssey as a divine assistant to Odysseus on his journey home.
Near the end of the Odyssey, Athena, wanting to buy Odysseus some time with his wife Penelope after they have reunited with each other, orders Eos not to yoke her two horses, thus delaying the coming of the new day: And rose-fingered Dawn would have shone for the weepers had not bright-eyed goddess Athena thought of other things.
The Mourning Athena or Athena Meditating is a famous relief sculpture dating to around 470–460 BC [214] [211] that has been interpreted to represent Athena Polias. [214] The most famous classical depiction of Athena was the Athena Parthenos , a now-lost 11.5 m (38 ft) [ 215 ] gold and ivory statue of her in the Parthenon created by the ...
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Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
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A literal translation is "wine-faced sea" (wine-faced, wine-eyed). It is attested five times in the Iliad and twelve times in the Odyssey [1] often to describe rough, stormy seas. The only other use of oînops in the works of Homer is for oxen, for which is it used once in the Iliad and once in the Odyssey, where it describes a reddish colour ...
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