(Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare

Usage examples of athene.

Was my restriction to the adamant sickle and the shadow-trick in the Cetus episode self-imposed or laid on by Athene, and if the former, was my motive to impress Andromeda with skill and valor rather than with magic?

What might have gladdened and elevated poor suffering and blinded humanity as a wonderful masterpiece of art, like the book of Hiob, or the Iliad, or Prometheus Vinctus, or the Athene of the Parthenon, or the Zeus of Olympus, showing how man in the creations of the artist rises highest above personal pettiness and weakness, how the genius in fiction creates the highest perfection, such as has never been seen in flesh and blood, has now, as an invented historical occurrence, driven the whole world to the rudest falsifications of truth and impossible efforts of imitation.

Invulnerable Prince of Myrmidons, He sparkled, by no sage Athene schooled.

Medusa last time, Athene put her back together again, with a difference: nowadays she turns stone to flesh instead of vice-versa: makes old folks spry again.

When he was done she redid through her tears her hair, to look more becomingly ravished, and called on Athene to avenge her.

What I asked Athene then was how to deal this time with the Gray Ladies, who though eyeless were not blind to my former strategy.

Pegasus, she advised me: Athene had recalled him for young Bellerophon, who was ready to commence now his own career.

I applied to both, making prayer-stops at every temple of Athene along the way back to Polyeidus.

Polyeidus misplaced, I would trust in Athene herself to correct and advise me, and to replace my dead half-brother with my living one.

Pegasus, I inferred I was clear with Athene, who, Deliades having been her particular votary, I presumed to be the only god concerned.

When he saw it was for joy I pounded him, he admitted he was Polyeidus and congratulated me on my achievement of Pegasus, which he was pleased to take for a sign that his petitions to Athene on my behalf had not been inefficacious.

Besides, I was trying to get through to Athene, to get my work done, and you kept interrupting.

I admit, but it was a trick the gods favored and helped me with, just as Athene helped me bridle Pegasus.

She was the only girl that Rosie could remember who had made a bikini look as if it had been designed for a Caryatid solemnly gazing over the Acropolis, one thigh forward ready to march in sacred procession to Athenes, high altar.

Weber, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kaisers Hadrianus, and Graindor, Athenes sous Hadrien, both cited before, give some discussion of this list, as do two other studies: E.