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Athene (also spelled Athena) is the patron of wisdom, military victory, and women's crafts. She is also known as Tritogeneia and Minerva (Roman) and is also called Pallas Athene. Her attributes in iconography include the aegis (a fringed cloak, sometimes decorated with a Gorgon's head), the helmet, and the spear.

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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.3.6

• Pindar: Olympian 7.32

• Pausanias 1.14.6

• Herodotus: Histories 4.180.5

• Hesiod: Theogony 885

• Hesiod: Theogony 929j

• Homeric Hymn 3b.305

• Homeric Hymn 28.1

Domain

• Pausanias 4.30.5

• Plato: Laws 920d

• Homeric Hymn 5.1

• Homeric Hymn 11.1

• Homeric Hymn 20.1

• Homer: Odyssey 2.115

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Hephaistos -> Erichthonius: Apollodorus 3.14.7, Pausanias 1.18.2

Other Encounters

• Achilles: Homer: Iliad 1.190, Homer: Iliad 1.206

• Aesculapius: Apollodorus 3.10.3

• Aeetes: Apollodorus 1.9.23

• Aias (Ajax): Apollodorus e.5.6, Apollodorus e.5.23, Apollodorus e.6.6, Sophocles: Ajax 1,Sophocles: Ajax 36, Sophocles: Ajax 74, Sophocles: Ajax 101, Sophocles: Ajax 748

• Apollo: Homer: Iliad 7.15, Homer: Iliad 7.43

• Ares and Aphrodite: Homer: Iliad 21.361, Homer: Iliad 21.400

• Ares and Cycnus: Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 327, Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 443

• Arming for war: Homer: Iliad 5.730, Homer: Iliad 5.764

• Cadmus: Apollodorus 3.4.2

• Danaus: Apollodorus 2.1.5

• Diomedes: Homer: Iliad 5.115, Homer: Iliad 5.121, Homer: Iliad 5.239, Homer: Iliad 5.280, Homer: Iliad 5.318, Homer: Iliad 5.363, Homer: Iliad 5.825, Homer: Iliad 5.835

• Giants: Apollodorus 1.6.2

• Hector: Homer: Iliad 22.177, Homer: Iliad 22.224, Homer: Iliad 22.260, Homer: Iliad 22.289

• Hekabe: Homer: Iliad 6.270, Homer: Iliad 6.297

• Heracles: Apollodorus 2.5.6, Apollodorus 2.5.12, Apollodorus 2.7.4, Hesiod: Theogony 315

• Jason: Apollodorus 1.9.17

• Nausicaa: Homer: Odyssey 6.10

• Odysseus:
  
  • Homer: Odyssey 1.44, Homer: Odyssey 1.80
  • Homer: Odyssey 5.5
  • Homer: Odyssey 5.380, Homer: Odyssey 5.408
  • Homer: Odyssey 6.225
  • Homer: Odyssey 7.10, Homer: Odyssey 7.37
  • Homer: Odyssey 13.190, Homer: Odyssey 13.217, Homer: Odyssey 13.250, Homer: Odyssey 13.287, Homer: Odyssey 13.329, Homer: Odyssey 13.366, Homer: Odyssey 13.416
  • Homer: Odyssey 22.205, Homer: Odyssey 22.210, Homer: Odyssey 22.225, Homer: Odyssey 22.292

• Pallas: Apollodorus 3.12.3

• Pandarus: Homer: Iliad 4.60, Homer: Iliad 4.85, Homer: Iliad 4.127

• Pandora: Hesiod: Theogony 575, Hesiod: Works and Days 60

• Paris (Alexander): Apollodorus e.3.2

• Perseus: Apollodorus 2.4.3, Pindar: Pythian 10.43

• Pipes: Apollodorus 1.4.3, Pausanias 1.24.2, Plutarch: Alcibiades 2.5

• Poseidon: Apollodorus 3.14.2, Herodotus Histories 8.55, Plutarch: Themistocles 19.3

• Telemachus: Homer: Odyssey 1.110, Homer: Odyssey 1.125, Homer: Odyssey 1.178, Homer: Odyssey 1.230, Homer: Odyssey 1.280, Homer: Odyssey 2.260, Homer: Odyssey 2.267, Homer: Odyssey 20.299, Homer: Odyssey 20.345

• Tiresias: Apollodorus 3.6.8

• Tydeus: Apollodorus 3.6.8

Also see Athene images.

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