He also mentions on board the Dark Athena that people he helps often end up dead.

The first endeavor to build a sanctuary for Athena Parthenos on the site of the present Parthenon was begun shortly after the Battle of Marathon ( c. 490 – 488 BC ) upon a muscular limestone foundation that extended and leveled the southern part of the Acropolis summit.

* Callicrates starts to build the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis in Athens ( approximate date ).

After their return to Greece, and having been saved from dangers by Athena, she orders Orestes to take the Xoanon to the town of Halae where he is to build a temple for Artemis Tauropolos and let a man be sacrificed there during every festival in atonement for his own sacrifice.

He built the Trojan Horse, commissioned by Odysseus because Athena had told him in a dream she would be with him to help build it.

Zeus commands Athena ( Susan Fleetwood ) to give Perseus her owl Bubo ; but she orders Hephaestus ( Pat Roach ) to build a mechanical replica of Bubo instead, who leads Perseus to the Stygian Witches ( Flora Robson, Anna Manahan, and Freda Jackson ).

Out of respect for its long tradition and the association with the Dioscuri, the Spartans would not ravage these original " groves of Academe " when they invaded Attica, a piety not shared by the Roman Sulla, who axed the sacred olive trees of Athena in 86 BC to build siege engines.

According to a variety of sources of the legend, the Argo was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of Athena.

Men from all over Greece compete for the honor of joining Jason ; men who, because their ship is named the Argo after its builders Argos ( Laurence Naismith ) and his helper, the goddess Athena, are dubbed the Argonauts.

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 Roman name for Athena is Minerva.

* Roy George, " Athena: The sculptures of the goddess " — A repertory of Greek and Roman types

Minerva ( Etruscan: Menrva ) was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena.

A Roman period, 2nd century CE sculpture found near the Ioannis Varvakis | Varvakeion school reflects the type of the restored Athena Parthenos presently in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens | National Archaeological Museum, Athens

File: Testa di Minerva S. Giulia Brescia. JPG | Head of Athena, Roman copy

Pallas Athena ( better known as Athena, Minerva is her Roman name ) placed him in a willow basket and told the sisters not to look on the mysteries.

Later in Book 2, Hermes ( Mercury in Roman mythology ) is in Athens and sees a festival to Athena.

According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.

Medusa had copulated with Poseidon ( Roman Neptune ) in a temple of Athena after he was aroused by the golden color of Medusa's hair.

Some of these myths relate that Perseus was armed with a scythe from Hermes ( Roman equivalent Mercury ) and a mirror ( or a shield ) from Athena.

A votive sculpture found near the Ioannis Varvakis | Varvakeion school reflects the type of the restored Athena Parthenos: Roman period, 2nd century CE ( National Archaeological Museum of Athens ).

* The Varvakeion Athena, a Roman copy in marble of the 2nd century, is housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Her British and continental counterpart Brigantia seems to have been the Celtic equivalent of the Roman Minerva and the Greek Athena ( Encyclopædia Britannica: Celtic Religion ), goddesses with very similar functions and apparently embodying the same concept of ' elevated state ', whether physical or psychological.

Orophernes, the rebellious brother of the Cappadocian king, who had deposited a treasure there and recovered it by Roman intervention, restored the temple of Athena as a thank-offering.

The Roman poet Virgil, in interpreting the Greek mythos, held that the hero Enceladus was buried beneath Etna by the goddess Athena as punishment for disobeying the gods ; the mountain's rumblings were his tormented cries, the flames his breath and the tremors his railing against the bars of his prison.

The Greek gods were equated with the ancient Roman deities ; Zeus with Jupiter, Hera with Juno, Poseidon with Neptune, Aphrodite with Venus, Ares with Mars, Artemis with Diana, Athena with Minerva, Hermes with Mercury, Hephaestus with Vulcan, Hestia with Vesta, Demeter with Ceres, Hades with Pluto, Tyche with Fortuna, and Pan with Faunus.

Many of the game's elements are inspired by Greek mythology or ancient Roman culture such as weapons, equipment, items and enemy designs ; Princess Athena herself is named after the Greek goddess Athena, while Dante is based on Cerberus.

A Roman inscription says that the wall and square towers were repaired at the expense of P Aelius Hagetor, the priest of Athena in the 2nd century AD.

In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid ( Metamorphoses 4. 770 ), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, " the jealous aspiration of many suitors ," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was caught being raped by the " Lord of the Sea " Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone.

* 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 )

The seal features the Roman goddess Minerva ( Athena in Greek mythology ), the goddess of wisdom and war ; a California grizzly bear ( the official state animal ) feeding on grape vines, representing California's wine production ; a sheaf of grain, representing agriculture ; a miner, representing the California Gold Rush and the mining industry ; and sailing ships, representing the state's economic power.

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.

The University seal depicts the Greek goddess of wisdom Athena in front of the first college hall.

In this context, Graves identifies the aegis as clearly belonging first to Athena.

Athena Tacha Spear's book, Brâncuși's Birds, ( CAA monographs XXI, NYU Press, New York, 1969 ), first sorted out the 36 versions and their development, from the early Măiastra, to the Golden Bird of the late teens, to the Bird in Space, which emerged in the early ' 20s and which Brâncuși perfected throughout his life.

The first non-pirate private radio station to broadcast in Greece was Athena 98. 4 FM, in 1987.

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

In the first episodes, we trace Telemachus ' efforts to assert control of the household, and then, at Athena ’ s advice, to search for news of his long-lost father.

The contest of Athena and Poseidon was the subject of the reliefs on the western pediment of the Parthenon, the first sight that greeted the arriving visitor.

" This vase painting clearly depicts Hephaestus and Athena putting the finishing touches on the first woman, as in the Theogony.

In fifth-century Athens, Pandora made a prominent appearance in what, at first, appears an unexpected context, in a marble relief or bronze appliqués as a frieze along the base of the Athena Parthenos, the culminating experience on the Acropolis.

A four stage Athena II using Castor 120s as both first and second stages became the first commercially developed launch vehicle to launch a lunar probe ( Lunar Prospector ) in 1998.

* The first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias ' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis.

In the Odyssey by Homer, under the instructions of Athena, Telemachus spends the first four books trying to gain knowledge of his father, Odysseus, who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant.

Cook first suggested that the single vein closed by a nail or plug referred to the lost-wax method of casting ; Robert Graves ( whose interpretation of Greek mythology is controversial among many scholars ) suggests that this myth is based on a misinterpretation of an image of Athena demonstrating the process of lost-wax casting of steel, which Daedalus would have brought to Sardinia.

# Periboea, one of the first two maidens sent by the people of Locris to the shrine of Athena at Troy, in order to relieve them of plague.

Dolon proved to be the better runner but Athena infused fresh strength into the son of Tydeus for she feared some other Achaean might earn the glory of being first to hit Dolon.

They were expert astrologers and seafarers, and were the first to introduce sacrifices to Athena at Rhodes.

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 ".

This Tyrsenus supposedly first invented the trumpet, and Tyrsenus ' son Hegeleus taught the Dorians with Temenus how to play the trumpet and first gave to Athena the surname Trumpet.

Menander was the first Indo-Greek ruler to introduce the representation of Athena Alkidemos (" Athena, saviour of the people ") on his coins, probably in reference to a similar statue of Athena Alkidemos in Pella, capital of Macedon.