Athena

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

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.

While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scabbard, Athena came down from heaven (for Hera had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.

Then, going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Athena shed sweet sleep over her eyes.

she grasped the redoubtable bronze-shod spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her, and down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, whereon forthwith she was in the dêmos of Ithaca, at the gateway of Odysseus' house, disguised as a visitor, Mentes, chief of the Taphians, and she held a bronze spear in her hand.

And Athena said, "Father, son of Kronos, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Odysseus should get home, we should first send Hermes to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to have his homecoming [ nostos].

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 …

(whose statue, it seems, Pheidias wrought expressly that Demosthenes might have it to perjure himself by and to make profit of) that if any one should say that we ought to make peace with Philip, he would seize him by the hair and drag him to prison—in this imitating the politics of Cleophon, who, they tell us, in the time of the war against the Lacedaemonians, brought ruin to the state.

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.

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;

And there are some who posit five Athenas:

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.

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

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

And when he found that the temper of the Athenians was kindly, that they had chosen him general, and that his friends were urging him by personal messages to return, he sailed in to Piraeus, arriving on the day when the city was celebrating the Plynteria and the statue of Athena was veiled from sight,—a circumstance which some people imagined was of ill omen, both for him and for the state;

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.

Is that Athena’s gift, bidding her race grow up under their guardianship?

’Tis I, Pallas, after whom your land is named, that am here, by Apollo sent in headlong haste;

Athena:

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.

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;

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?

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

Why not choose Athena Polias?

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;

Is it right, then, that you should deal tenderly with any one of them, and disregard for their sakes the tithes of Athena or the double repayment of public moneys?

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;

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

Pallas of her prowess;

for our husbands tell us that fair-haired Menelaus and high-born Agamemnon are leading them to Troy on a thousand ships in quest of Helen, whom Paris the herdsman carried off from the banks of reedy Eurotas, his gift from Aphrodite, when that queen of Cyprus entered beauty’s contest with Hera and Pallas at the gushing fountain.

As they turn there appears at the back a luminous and gigantic shape, the Goddess ATHENA.

Of Pallas’ shield-made music terrible.

ATHENA.

if Pallas, daughter of Zeus, had not decreed your ruin, you would be standing firmly still.

Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed army, and sent it within the battlements, a deadly statue;

for over the soul the ties of kin exert no feeble spell, great queen Athena.

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

Fane of Tritonian Pallas bountiful,

Of Pallas, grieved at that espial old,

As it was, the daughter of Zeus, the grim-eyed, unconquerable goddess, tripped me up at the instant when I was readying my hand against them, and shot me with a plague of frenzy so that I might bloody my hands in these grazers.

No, the daughter of Zeus, the valiant goddess, abuses me to my destruction.

In all else, Athena, I bid you take your pleasure, but he will pay this penalty and no other.

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.

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

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;

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,:

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

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;

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 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.

O Pallas, how you have destroyed me!

For having first spread a report that Athena was bringing Pisistratus back, and having found a tall and beautiful woman—as Herodotus says, from the deme of the Paeanians, but as some say, a Thracian garland-seller from Collytus, whose name was Phye—he had her imitate the goddess in her adornment and brought her in along with him;

Accordingly, they persuaded Artabazus to forgo his vengeance upon Charidemus, and to send him off under an armistice, advising him that you would bring Charidemus across with or without his consent: