"... and among them went bright-eyed Athene, holding the precious aegis which is ageless and immortal: a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of a hundred oxen.

Often the Aegis is described as the bag in which Athene carried her shield and the serpent who was her son.

She is thought to bear the name of the deity who was derived from Libya, where known as Neith, the same source sometimes identified as the parallel for Athene.

Even at that early time the Gorgon is displayed as a vestige of ancient powers that preceded the historical transition to the beliefs of the Classical Greeks, displayed on the chest of Athene and Zeus.

Ancient Libya is identified as a possible source of the deity, Neith, who also was a creation deity in Ancient Egypt and, when the Greeks occupied Egypt, they said that Neith was called Athene in Greece.

The Little Owl ( Athene noctua ) is a bird which is resident in much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, Asia east to Korea, and north Africa.

That is likely the reason the labrys was depicted as the instrument used by Hephaestus ( who much earlier had been a consort of the Earth goddess ) to release Athene.

The Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia ) is a tiny but long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America.

On the other hand, osteology and DNA sequence data suggests that the Burrowing Owl is just a terrestrial version of the Athene little owls, and it is today placed in that genus by most authorities.

On the east coast is the Athene Glacier while the Arctowski Nunatak and Akerlundh Nunatak are both located just off the east coast.

The Spotted Owlet ( Athene brama ) is a small owl which breeds in tropical Asia from India to Southeast Asia.

Anat is also presumably the goddess whom Sanchuniathon calls Athene, a daughter of El, mother unnamed, who with Hermes ( that is Thoth ) counselled El on the making of a sickle and a spear of iron, presumably to use against his father Uranus.

SUPAERO's mascot is the Little Owl ( Athene noctua ), a symbol of wisdom sacred to the goddess Athena.

Canto CVI turns to visions of the goddess as fertility symbol via Demeter and Persephone, in her lunar, love aspect as Selena, Helen and Aphrodite Euploia (" of safe voyages ") and as hunter Athene ( Proneia: " of forethought ", the form in which she is worshiped at Delphi ) and Diana ( through quotes from Layamon ).

While the film is primarily a bawdy comedy ( even more so than the Greek play ), it also contains interesting tidbits of historic truth, such as a relatively accurate life-size replica of the Pallas Athene statue by Phidias in the Parthenon.

The seal of Phi Sigma Tau is the reverse side of the Athenian silver tetradrachm, which bears the owl of Pallas Athene, the goddess of wisdom and rational inquiry, an olive spray, a small crescent, and the name of Athena in Greek.

In T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone, Kennaquhair is the land of Athene, mother-goddess of the owls, and is located at the doubly impossible co-ordinates of 91 degrees north and 181 degrees west.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

:" You alone of all the gods saved Zeus the Darkener of the Skies from an inglorious fate, when some of the other Olympians — Hera, Poseidon, and Pallas Athene — had plotted to throw him into chains ... You, goddess, went and saved him from that indignity.

Robert Graves interpreted the association with war as a relationship with the pre-Olympian war goddess, Athene, who was an orgiastic bride in many local sacred marriages to kings who may have been sacrificed.

Zeus swallowing the goddess symbolized the progressive suppression of the earlier traditional religious beliefs, symbolically dethroning the goddess, Metis, but allowing Athene ( her daughter ) to be " born " of Zeus because her worship was so pervasive and widespread that it could not be suppressed.

Lorenzo il Magnifico may have commissioned Sandro Botticelli's Pallas Athene Taming a Centaur as a wedding gift to the new couple, presumably suggesting that Semirande ( represented by Pallas ) should endeavour to " tame " young Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco ( represented by centaur ) ( or more metaphorically, the surrender of brute insticts to the goddess of reason, a reference to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco's entrance to manhood ).

It was also Trissino who gave him the name by which he became known, Palladio, an allusion to the Greek goddess of wisdom Pallas Athene and to a character of a play by Trissino.

Eine Studie über Pallas Athene ( Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion ) ( 1952 )

In Greek mythology, Athene competed with Poseidon for possession of Athens.

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Virgil imagines the Cyclopes in Hephaestus ' forge, who " busily burnished the aegis Athene wears in her angry moods — a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast — a severed head rolling its eyes.

: Listen to the words of the Great Mother ; she who of old was also called among men Artemis, Astarte, Athene, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Dana, Arianrhod, Isis, Bride, and by many other names.

The so-called holy minimalists are represented by Arvo Pärt, whose Johannespassion and Magnificat have received regular performances ; John Tavener ( Song for Athene ) and Henryk Gorecki ( Totus Tuus ) share this label.

Caryatids are found at the treasuries at Delphi and the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens for Athene.

Some species are prey for Little Owls ( Athene noctua ) in central Asia.

There are four secondary schools in Ede: Marnix College, Pallas Athene College, one division of Het Streek and Groenhorst College.

Pre-First World War graduates of the Academy included Athene Seyler, who became president in 1950, Robert Atkins and Cedric Hardwicke.

31: 35-37, 2009 ) has advocated splitting the southeastern races as a separate species Lilith's Owl Athene glaux ( with subspecies A. g. glaux, A. g. indigena, and A. g. lilith ).

Today's trend toward furniture designs from America's past is teaching home-owners and decorators a renewed respect for the shrewd cabinetmakers of our Colonial era.

The Vienna meeting will bring together a seasoned, 67-year-old veteran of the cold war who, in Mr. Kennedy's own words, is `` shrewd, tough, vigorous, well-informed and confident '', and a 44-year-old President ( his birthday is May 29 ) with a demonstrated capacity for political battle but little experience in international diplomacy.

Mr. Khrushchev is known to rely heavily on his instincts about his adversaries and to be a shrewd judge of men.

Disraeli's writing is considered generally interesting, and his books teem with striking thoughts, shrewd maxims, and brilliant phrases which stick in the memory ; on the other hand, he is often considered artificial, extravagant, and turgid.

Like his earlier raids, Raynald's expedition is usually seen as selfish and ultimately fatal for Jerusalem, but according to Bernard Hamilton it was actually shrewd strategy, meant to damage Saladin's prestige and reputation.

Þrymr finds the behaviour at odds with his impression of Freyja, and Loki, sitting before Þrymr and appearing as a " very shrewd maid ", makes the excuse that " Freyja's " behaviour is due to her having not consumed anything for eight entire days before arriving due to her eagerness to arrive.

The historian George Herring has said that while the purchase was somewhat the result of Jefferson and Madison's " shrewd and sometimes belligerent diplomacy ", that it " is often and rightly regarded as a diplomatic windfall — the result of accident, luck, and the whim of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In the play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the " shrewd and knavish sprite " and " that merry wanderer of the night " in some scenes it would seem that he is longing for freedom and he is also a jester to Oberon, the fairy king.

Abbot Radulfus, who is himself a shrewd and worldly man, allows Cadfael a certain degree of independence and appreciates that there are circumstances under which the rules of the Order must be bent in order to serve a greater and more practical good.

Like his rival he is a shrewd businessman and has managed to organize a worldwide financial empire that can easily rival those of Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold.

Sloan is remembered for being a rational, shrewd, and very successful manager, who led GM to become the largest corporation on earth, a position it held for many years after his death.

He is an authority of considerable value from 1066 onwards ; many telling anecdotes and shrewd judgments on persons and events can be gleaned from his pages.

Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote: " Teaming for the first time Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson, arguably the two best actors of their generation, in perfectly fitting roles is a shrewd move and the best element of this fact-inspired but overwrought thriller.

But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered ; but I have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes, grown so crazy and stiff in his joynts, that he can now do little more than sit in his Caves mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.

Economically, the Agikuyu were great farmers-because there is a strong evidence that everybody knew that the Agikuyu country was full of food-and shrewd business men.

: The contemporary liberal's fascination with Niebuhr, I suggest, comes less from Niebuhr's dark theory of human nature and more from his actual political pronouncements, from the fact that he is a shrewd, courageous, and right-minded man on many political questions.

" Another student said of Corot, " the newspapers had so distorted Corot, putting Theocritus and Virgil in his hands, that I was quite surprised to find him knowing neither Greek nor Latin … His welcome is very open, very free, very amusing: he speaks or listens to you while hopping on one foot or on two ; he sings snatches of opera in a very true voice ", but he has a " shrewd, biting side carefully hidden behind his good nature.

MacHardie, a shrewd businessman, senses Alfred's drive and ambition, and when Alfred asserts that his goal in life is to earn more money than his father, MacHardie offers him a job in his investment firm.

Elizabeth is satisfied that reckless, passionate Mary's romantic misadventures will keep her busy in Scotland and give shrewd, practical Elizabeth less to worry about.

He duly forms a governing body ; one of its members is the shrewd shopkeeper Arthur Pemberton ( Stanley Holloway ).

The Arab, like all the Semites, is sharp minded and shrewd.