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Definition of Athena
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva.
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Greek Deity
Definition of Athena
1. Proper noun. (Greek god) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Athena
Literary usage of Athena
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1896)
"MONUMENTS OF athena-WORSHIP. caprice of the artist, but do not prove that he or
any one else believed athena was Medusa. Even the larger view taken by O. ..."
2. The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin (1883)
"T HAVE now only a few words to say, bearing on what seems to me present need,
respecting the third function of athena, conceived as the directress of human ..."
3. Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art by Adolf Furtwängler (1895)
"The athena who holds the helmet in her hand or has no helmet at all almost always
... 12, AB The head of a statue representing the bareheaded athena seems ..."
4. The Acropolis of Athens by Martin Luther D'Ooge (1909)
"Frazer holds that the oldest temple on the Acropolis was the original Erechtheum,
that this was a joint temple of Erechtheus and athena, that the temple ..."
5. Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers, William Francis Allen (1889)
"The most celebrated of his colossal sculptures were the statue of athena within the
... The statue of athena was of gigantic size, being about forty feet in ..."
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