Athena

" And Athena said, "I come from heaven, if you will hear me, to bid you stay your anger.

" He stayed his hand on the silver hilt of his sword, and thrust it back into the scabbard as Athena bade him.

Ofttimes in my father's house have I heard you glory in that you alone of the immortals saved the son of Kronos from ruin, when the others, with Hera, Poseidon, and Pallas Athena would have put him in bonds.

He led the way as he spoke, and Athena followed him.

" exclaimed Athena, "then you do indeed want Odysseus home again.

And Athena answered, "I will tell you truly and particularly all about it.

nay, it seems to me that not even if Athena, were such a thing possible, had played her own strain all the way through, would that man ever have laid hand on weapons — far sooner would he have risen up to dance than to flee;

They say that once, when the flute-player Timotheus first gave a performance before King Alexander, he played in the king's own manner, with great skill and musicianship — no soft melody, nor a relaxed one, nor any of the kind that lead to ease and indolence, but, I believe, the very strain that is called the orthian, the air sacred to Athena.

But I, neither to gratify you nor at variance with Homer, nor grudging him his glory, will try to show how many things he seems to me to have said falsely about the affairs here—refuting him not from anywhere else, but from the poetry itself, both aiding the truth and most of all for the sake of Athena, that she may not seem unjustly to have destroyed her own city, nor to have wished things contra …

For the golden crown itself which is proclaimed in the city theater the law takes from the man who is crowned, and commands that it be dedicated to Athena.

Now this man it was, fellow citizens, this past master of flattery, who, when informed through scouts of Charidemus that Philip was dead, before any one else had received the news, made up a vision for himself and lied about the gods, pretending that he had received the news, not from Charidemus, but from Zeus and Athena, the gods by whose name he perjures himself by day, and who then converse wit …

and with the idea of serving a sort of notice on the Boeotarchs that they must turn over to him his share of the gain, he swore by Athena

and Chamaeleon of Heraclea, in his work On Drunkenness, and Aristotle, in his Constitution of the Locrians, record that Zaleucus the Locrian received his laws from Athena.

having washed his hands in the grey sea, prayed to Athena.

Hence the wisest of the Egyptian priests set apart the seat of Athena unroofed and open to the sky, as the Hebrews founded the temple without an image.

And there are some who posit five Athenas:

Athena, then, having made off with the heart of Dionysus, was called Pallas from its throbbing (pallein).

Yes, and as for Apollo, Aristotle reckons the first the son of Hephaestus and Athena — here, then, Athena is no longer a virgin;

to Athena of Lindus, two stone images and a marvellous linen breast-plate;

what he gave to Lindus was not out of friendship for anyone, but because the temple of Athena in Lindus is said to have been founded by the daughters of Danaus, when they landed there in their flight from the sons of Egyptus.

It would seem that the robe and aegis of the images of Athena were copied by the Greeks from the Libyan women;

During the ensuing year the temple of Athena at Phocaea was struck by lightning and set on fire.

Now Mindarus caught sight of the battle as he was sacrificing to Athena at Ilium, and hurrying to the sea he launched his triremes and set out, in order to pick up the ships under Dorieus.

In the ensuing year—the year in which there was an eclipse of the moon one evening, and the old temple of Athena at Athens was burned, Pityas being now ephor at Sparta and Callias archon at Athens—the Lacedaemonians sent Callicratidas to take command of the fleet, since Lysander’s term of office had ended (and with it the twenty-fourth year of the war).

Athena:

Two drops of Gorgon’s blood.

Hast heard of Erichthonius, or no?

And the goddess bright-eyed Athena girded and clothed her with silvery raiment, and down from her head she spread with her hands an embroidered veil, a wonder to see;

And her Heracles, the son of Zeus, of the house of Amphitryon, together with warlike Iolaus, destroyed with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athena the spoil driver.

Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …

Besides, is not Athena recognized as Zeus' sole heiress?

Why not choose Athena Polias?

what a well-ordered town it would be to have a female deity armed from head to foot, while Clisthenes was spinning!

If the Presidents do not convene the Assembly according to the written regulations, or if the commissioners do not put the question, each president shall forfeit one thousand drachmas of sacred money to Athena, and each commissioner shall forfeit forty drachmas of sacred money to Athena, and information thereof shall be laid before the Judges in such manner as when a man holds office being in debt to the treasury;

for the have robbed the temples of the ten per cent due to Athena and of the two per cent due to the other gods;

and yet, when you had honored him with the office of ambassador, robbed the Goddess at Athens of her tithe of the plunder he took from your enemies?

Pallas of her prowess;

Here one day came Pallas and Cypris of the subtle heart, Hera too and Hermes messenger of Zeus;

Pallas set in a winged chariot drawn by steeds with solid hoof, a lucky sight for mariners.

PARIS.

ATHENA.

ATHENA.

Athena:

Athena:

Athena:

The cat-eyed she's "a little Pallas," she;

Fane of Tritonian Pallas bountiful,

Of Pallas, grieved at that espial old,

Blessed Heracles, it is fitting for you to persuade the husband of Hera and the gray-eyed virgin goddess;

Artemis and bold Athena gazed at him with wonder, as he slew deer without the help of dogs and crafty nets;

And once the golden-haired, gray-eyed goddess made Diomedes an immortal god;

Pallas is her constant friend, and indeed so is father Zeus, and she is loved by her ivy-crowned son.

And the gray-eyed goddess herself bestowed on them every art, so that they surpassed all mortal men as the best workers with their hands;

that they should be the first to build for the goddess an altar visible to all men, and by founding a sacred burnt-offering warm the spirit of the father and of the daughter who thunders with her spear.

Ajax:

Ajax:

Ajax:

And may your daughter grant it too, dread Pallas Athena!

Yes, the steel of every bridle flashes, and against their opponents charges forward our whole cavalry, who honor horse-riding Athena, and the earth-girdling Sea-god, the dear son of Rhea.

For the sleepless eye of Zeus Morios watches over it, and gray-eyed Athena.

by birth he was of the phratry that uses the same altars as the Eteobutadae, from whom the priestess of Athena Polias comes;

his goods shall be confiscated and a tithe given to the Goddess.

As touching such of those registered with the Superintendents of Revenue, the Treasurers of Athena and the other Deities, or the Basileus, as had not been removed from the register before the last sitting of the Council in the archonship of Callias,:

I took my friends’ advice, and was formally reconciled to them on the Acropolis in the presence of witnesses, who performed the ceremony near the temple of Athena.

But the prosecution, who were perfectly familiar with the laws concerned and could see that I was a member of the Council and used the Council-chamber —why, in that very chamber itself stands a shrine of Zeus the Councillor and Athena the Councillor, where members offer prayers as they enter;

O Pallas, how you have destroyed me!

But you teach the men of the present day, so that I am choked, when at the Panathenaia a fellow, holding his shield before his person, neglects Tritogenia, when they ought to dance.