:" Athene ", " Athina " and " Pallas Athena " all redirect here.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

" Aegis-bearing Zeus ", as he is in the Iliad, sometimes lends the fearsome goatskin to Athena.

The epithet parthénos (), whose origin is also unclear, meant " maiden, girl ", but also " virgin, unmarried woman " and was especially used for Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and for Athena, the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason.

The Erinyes are propitiated by a new ritual, in which they are worshipped as " Semnai Theai ", " Venerable Ones ", and Orestes dedicates an altar to Athena Areia.

547 – 48 ) he is the son of " grain-giving Earth ", reared by Athena.

According to him, the thing which brought ill fate to the descendents of Harmonia is not a necklace, but a robe " dipped in crime ", given to Harmonia by Hephestus and Athena.

In his first chapter, " Economy ", Thoreau notes what he considers the valid objection of Momus / Momos against the house which Minerva / Athena made, that she " had not made it moveable, by which means a bad neighborhood might be avoided ".

* The name Promachus, " the champion ", also occurs as a surname of Athena in Athens, Heracles at Thebes, and of Hermes at Tanagra.

* Iowa State's implementation of MIT's Project Athena (" Project Vincent ", after Atanasoff's middle name )

* Geissel, Genevieve and Mildred Miley, " Athena, Once Centerville, Has Interesting History ", Umatilla County Historical Society Pioneer Trails, V2, no. 3, April 1978.

If the bird makes it through, he tells them to row with all their might and Athena gave the Argo the extra push needed to clear them, " the Argo darted from the rocks like a flying arrow ", whereas in the film he gives Jason an amulet.

The origin of the name is uncertain: it has been theorized to come from Arvanite " Pliak Athena ", meaning " Old Athens ", or from the presence of a " plaque " which once marked its central intersection.

After Athena defeats Dante, it all begins anew in the sequel, Athena: Full Throttle, in which the princess, again bored, opens the " Door Which Shouldn't Be Opened B ", disregarding her loyal maid Helene's advice, and they both fall to Elysium World where they face off against other villains.

* The " Rondanini Medusa ", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena ; later used as a model for the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( 1798 – 1801 )

Iowa State runs an implementation of Athena named " Project Vincent ", named after John Vincent Atanasoff, the inventor of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

The websites included Luminoth Temple, an Internet forum ; Channel 51, a conspiracy theory website that featured grainy QuickTime videos of Metroid Prime 2 as if it were footage of extraterrestrials ; Orbis Labs, which sold a " self-contained armored machine " called " Battle Sphere ", similar to the Morph Ball ; and Athena Astronautics, which advertised sending women into space, featured a blog, and offered job positions for bounty hunters on Monster. com.

Athena Astronautics gave a random selection of 25 people who replied to the offer an " interactive training manual ", which was in fact a free copy of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

Far more prominent are A-TA-NA PO-TI-NI-JA ( Athena Potnia, " Athena the Mistress "), E-RE-U-TI-JA ( Eileithyia, later merely invoked during childbirth ), Dionysus, and Poseidon, already the " Earth-Shaker ", either with his consort Poseida, who was not retained in the transition to Classical Greece, or, at Pylos, with the " Two Goddesses ", apparently Demeter and Persephone.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

* " Athena " ( song ), the first track on The Who's 1982 studio album, It's Hard

While the large tour for their latest album was in progress, they started an anti-war movement against the Iraqi war, and Athena contributed the movement with a song No Need for War, and performed with many other musicians.

Pete Townshend of The Who says that Russell was the inspiration for his song, " Athena ", which was first called " Theresa ".

He had found an aulos on the ground, tossed away after being invented by Athena because it made her cheeks puffy.

Athena has been used numerous times as a symbol of a republic by different countries and appears on currency as she did on the ancient drachma of Athens.

J. J. Bachofen advocated that Athena was originally a maternal figure stable in her security and poise but was caught up and perverted by a patriarchal society ; this was especially the case in Athens.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

Between 529 – 520 BC yet another temple was built by the Peisistratids, the Old Temple of Athena, usually referred to as the arkhaios neōs ( ἀρχαῖος νεώς, " ancient temple ").

The Aegis (), as stated in the Iliad, is the shield or buckler or breastplate, of Athena or Zeus, which, according to Homer was fashioned by Hephaestus.

There also is the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterward wore its skin as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii.

Odysseus set out to rescue his men, but was intercepted by his great grandfather, Hermes, who had been sent by Athena.

At the fall of Troy, she sought shelter in the temple of Athena, where she was violently abducted and raped by Ajax the Lesser.

In 2006 he was one of the two inaugural recipients of the Athena Award, given by the Congress for the New Urbanism ( CNU ).

The third, as described by Pindar, was created by the gods Hephaestus and Athena, but its architectural details included Siren-like figures or ' Enchantresses ', whose baneful songs eventually provoked the Olympian gods to bury the temple in the earth ( according to Pausanias, it was destroyed by earthquake and fire ).

As he was falling, Athena, who favors ingenuity, saw him falling and arrested his fate by changing him into a bird called after his name, perdix, the partridge.

At this point Athena led a procession accompanying them to their new abode, with the escort now addressing them as " Semnai " ( Venerable Ones ), as they will now be honored by the citizens of Athens and ensure the city's prosperity.

* The Fundamentalist Distortion of the Islamic Message by Syed Manzar Abbas Saidi, published in Athena Intelligence Journal

Zeus rescued the heart and gave it to Semele to impregnate her ; or, the heart was saved, variously, by Athena, Rhea, or Demeter.

An alternative and less commonly told story has it that Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked.

Several demographic studies, including those by social work researcher Athena Kolbe have shed light on the current status of urban residents.

Fear of Hera's revenge led Alcmene to expose the infant Heracles, but he was taken up and brought to Hera by his half-sister Athena, who played an important role as protectress of heroes.

Athena brought the infant back to his mother, and he was subsequently raised by his parents.

In this play the innovation is brought about by the goddess Athena, who summons twelve citizens to sit as jury.

Athena ( first from the right ) is also naked, but she, unlike Aphrodite, displays some modesty by covering her genitals.