Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Objects

    Athena's spear

    object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    bronze spear · redoubtable bronze-shod spear · sharp spear

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    The bronze-shod spear Athena carries in her disguise as Mentes, taken from her by Telemachus and stored among Odysseus's own spears.

    He took her right hand in his own, and bade her give him her spear.
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    When they were within he took her spear and set it in the spear - stand against a strong bearing-post along with the many other spears of his unhappy father, and he conducted her to a richly decorated seat under which he threw a cloth of damask.
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    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.
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    Hymn 28 to AthenaClassical · Greek

    Athena's spear is the weapon she brandishes after springing from Zeus's head.

    But Athena sprang quickly from the immortal head and stood before Zeus who holds the aegis, shaking a sharp spear:
    hymn 28 to athena