[4] the parthenon on the acropolis of athens is dedicated to her Her major symbols include owls, olive trees, snakes, and the gorgoneion. In ancient greek religion, athena was a goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason She was widely worshipped, but in modern times she is associated primarily with athens, to which she gave her name and protection. Athena is the olympian goddess of wisdom and war and the adored patroness of the city of athens Athena was the goddess of wisdom, war, and the crafts
She was the favourite daughter of zeus and was, perhaps, the wisest, most courageous, and certainly the most resourceful of the olympian gods. Athena was the ancient greek goddess of wisdom and good counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and various other crafts. One of the great divinities of the greeks Homer 1 calls her a daughter of zeus, without any allusion to her mother or to the manner in which she was called into existence, while most of the later traditions agree in stating that she was born from the head of zeus. Athena (əthē´nə), or pallas athena (păl´əs), in greek religion and mythology, one of the most important olympian deities According to myth, after zeus seduced metis he learned that any son she bore would overthrow him, so he swallowed her alive.
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