In ancient Greek religion and culture, Athena, daughter of Zeus, reigns as the patron goddess of heroic endeavors, ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and ...

Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis and one of the twelve Olympian deities the Greeks believed ruled over the cosmos. She was the goddess of wisdom and war, but also of crafts and weaving.

Athena, goddess of wisdom, has been slow to help Odysseus on his journey home - but Hermes persuades her to get involved.Hermes finds Odysseus alone, washed up on the shoreline of an island he ...

Bright-eyed Athena, the goddess of wisdom, was not birthed of a woman.  Rather, she sprang from the head of Zeus after he swallowed Metis, ...