Nearby is the temple of Athena.

Athena is reported as a source of influence for feminist theologians such as Carol P. Christ.

Athena ( Minerva ) is the subject of the $ 50 1915-S Panama-Pacific commemorative coin.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

The Roman name for Athena is Minerva.

Still more different from Bachofen's perspective is the lack of role permanency in Freud's view: Freud held that time and differing cultures would mold Athena to stand for what was necessary to them.

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.

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.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

When he wakes up, he is under the influence of a spell from Athena.

After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

His value as a war god is even placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike ( Victory ) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks.

To the south of the entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike.

At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

The temple of Athena Nike is the only edifice still unfinished, pending proper reassembly of its parts, all of which survive practically intact.

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.

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

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.

The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.

In January 1204, the protovestiarius Alexius Murzuphlus provoked a riot, it is presumed, to intimidate Alexius IV, but whose only result was the destruction of the great statue of Athena, the work of Phidias, which stood in the principal forum facing west.

The Tholos at the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is a circular building that was constructed between 380 and 360 BC.

Tauropolos is an ancient epithet attached to Hecate, Artemis and even Athena.

Renan's head was turned away from the building, while Athena, beside him, was depicted raising her arm, which was interpreted as indicating a challenge to the church during an anti-clerical phase in French official culture.

Athena was depicted on the obverse of the Greek 100 drachmas banknote of 1978-2001.

Athena was depicted with a spear prior to that change in myths, however.

On a Tetradrachma of Athens, struck c. 490 BC, the head of Athena, ( left ), is regarded as the obverse because of its larger scale and because it is a portrait head ; the entire owl is depicted in a smaller scale on the reverse

Called the " Mythological issue ", its designs, by M. Biskinis, depicted figures from ancient Greek mythology like Daedalus and Icarus, Helios and Athena.

The 4th century BC silver tetradrachmon (" four drachma ") coin, depicting a deified Alexander with two horns, replaced the 5th century BC Athenian silver tetradrachmon ( which depicted the goddess Athena ) as the most widely used coin in the Greek world.

The themes depicted often belong to the Dionysiac cycle: thiasos and symposium scenes, satyrs, maenads, Silenos, Orestes, Electra, the gods Aphrodite and Eros, Apollo, Athena and Hermes.

Both Zeus and Athena are sometimes depicted as wearing a goatskin shield or breastplate called an Aegis.

The coins minted at Priene featured the helmeted head of Athena on the obverse and a meander pattern on the reverse, one coin also displaying a dolphin and the legend ΠΡΙΗ for ΠΡΙΗΝΕΩΝ ( Priēneōn ), " of the Prieneians.

* According to Bopearachchi, his silver coinage begins with a rare series of drachms depicting on the obverse Athena and on the reverse her attribute the owl.

Following this principle, in the most famous of Ancient Greek coins, the tetradrachm of Athens, the obverse is the head of Athena and the reverse is her owl.

Coin, dipicting the head of Philetaerus on the obverse and seated Athena, Greek goddess of war and wisdom, on the reverse, struck during the reign of Eumenes I ( 263 BC – 241 BC )

Coin struck during the reign of Eumenes I, depicting the head of Eumenes ' uncle Philetaerus on the obverse and seated Athena, patron deity of the city of Pergamon, on the reverse.

Coin struck during the reign of Eumenes I, dipicting the head of Philetaerus on the obverse and seated Athena on the reverse.

He struck silver a with diademed portrait on the obverse and a reverse of Athena Alkidemos, and also a unique coin with the reverse of a king, possibly Alexander the Great, sitting on a horned horse similar to Alexander's Bucephalus and holding his hand in a benediction gesture.

On their obverse is a diademed portrait of the king, with Athena Alkidemos on the reverse.

Both kings used the epithets Soter Epiphanes and the reverse of Athena Alkidemos ( fighting Pallas Athene ), the emblem of the dynasty of Menander I. Polyxenios also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her aegis on the reverse.

In 2002, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point was honored for its 200th anniversary, and a bicentennial commemorative silver dollar was issued and unveiled on March 16 of that year, featuring a cadet color guard on the obverse and the helmet of Pallas Athena on the reverse.

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Austria )# 2005 coinage | Euro coin commemorating 60 Years of the Second Republic of Austria, featuring Athena Promachos

Movable type traces its origins to the punches used to make coin s: the reverse face of a Tetradrachm Ancient Greek coinage | Greek coin from Athens, 5th century BC, featuring letters and the owl symbol of Athena.

Silver coin of Menander, with Athena on reverse.

He also introduced a new coin type, with Athena Alkidemos (" Protector of the people ") on the reverse, which was adopted by most of his successors in the East.

The coin is in a style similar to those of Menander I, has the same type of Athena, and shares one of Menander's mint marks.