Athena
n. goddess of wisdom and warfare (Greek Mythology); female first name | ||||
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Athena
Noun
1. (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva
(synonym) Athene, Pallas, Pallas Athena, Pallas Athene
(hypernym) Greek deity
(classification) Greek mythology
Noun
1. (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva
(synonym) Athene, Pallas, Pallas Athena, Pallas Athene
(hypernym) Greek deity
(classification) Greek mythology
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Athena
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Athens (pl.); inhabitants of Athens| Athenians
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Athens (pl.); inhabitants of Athens| Athenians
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Athena (Greek) Daughter of Metis (wisdom, wise counsel) and Zeus, said to have sprung fully-formed from her father's head; with Zeus and Apollo one of a divine triad. Famed for wise counsel both in peace and war, Athena was the strategist, as Homer portrays her in the Iliad. As patron deity of Athens, she was the genius of statesmanship and civic policy. Certain archaic monuments show Athena assisting Prometheus (the intellectual fire-bringer) in shaping the first human body from the plastic stuff of earth. It is equally significant that she was connected with Apollo, the god of the seers and the sun personified, in producing climatic changes due to the shifting of the poles. Athena is to be found, variously named, in every theogony, as one of the kabeiria, those mighty beings "of both sexes, as also terrestrial, celestial and kosmic," who when incarnated as initiate-teachers or kings, "were also, in the beginning of times, the rulers of mankind," giving "the first impulse to civilizations" and directing "the mind with which they had endued men to the invention and perfection of all the arts and sciences" (SD 2:363-4).
As a virgin deity of intellectual character, Parthenos, Athena is the mother of manasaputric kumaras. Thus through these intellectual progeny she is the source of ideative or intellectual power. See also Minerva
Athena (Greek) Daughter of Metis (wisdom, wise counsel) and Zeus, said to have sprung fully-formed from her father's head; with Zeus and Apollo one of a divine triad. Famed for wise counsel both in peace and war, Athena was the strategist, as Homer portrays her in the Iliad. As patron deity of Athens, she was the genius of statesmanship and civic policy. Certain archaic monuments show Athena assisting Prometheus (the intellectual fire-bringer) in shaping the first human body from the plastic stuff of earth. It is equally significant that she was connected with Apollo, the god of the seers and the sun personified, in producing climatic changes due to the shifting of the poles. Athena is to be found, variously named, in every theogony, as one of the kabeiria, those mighty beings "of both sexes, as also terrestrial, celestial and kosmic," who when incarnated as initiate-teachers or kings, "were also, in the beginning of times, the rulers of mankind," giving "the first impulse to civilizations" and directing "the mind with which they had endued men to the invention and perfection of all the arts and sciences" (SD 2:363-4).
As a virgin deity of intellectual character, Parthenos, Athena is the mother of manasaputric kumaras. Thus through these intellectual progeny she is the source of ideative or intellectual power. See also Minerva
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ATHENA
ATHENA is an antimatter research project that is taking place at the AD Ring at CERN. In 2002, it was the first experiment to produce 50,000 low-energy antihydrogen atoms, as reported in the journal Nature.
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Athena
In Greek mythology, Athena (Attic: , Athēnâ, or , Athḗnē; Doric: , Asána; Latin: Minerva) is the shrewd companion of Heroes and the Goddess of Heroic endeavour. She would also come to be known as the goddess of wisdom as philosophy became applied to cult in the later fifth century. She remained the patroness of weaving especially and other crafts (Athena Ergane) and the more disciplined side of war, where she led the battle (Athena Promachos). Athena's wisdom also includes the cunning intelligence (metis) of such figures as Odysseus.
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