Athena's armor
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
arms of war · flashing gold · heavenly armour · the host-scaring weapon of Athena · warlike arms
in the texts
Theogony
The armor and weapon with which Athena is born fully equipped from Zeus's head.
And with it (Zeus) gave her birth, arrayed in arms of war.
There the goddess (Athena) received that whereby she excelled in strength all the deathless less ones who dwell in Olympus, she who made the host-scaring weapon of Athena.
Hymn 28 to Athena
Athena's armor is the golden martial equipment she wears at birth and later removes.
the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athena had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders.