1. ATHENA

2. Athena was born of
Zeus alone but she had
a mother it was Metis
when Metis was
pregnant Zeus
swallowed her. Later he
had a headache and
had his head split
Open and out came
Athena in full armor.

3. Athena was a warrior
goddess and had the
body of a virgin, her roman
name is Minerva.
She is often called Athena
Parthenos ("Athena the virgin")
this is why her most famous
temple was named the
Parthenon. Athena is also
called Pallas which means
strong virgin.
Athena’s symbols are the owl, as well as the Olive tree. She represents wisdom, the arts, industry, justice, the disciplined side of war, and above all control over elemental force

4. Athena is Zeus's favorite child,
and the only one allowed to
wield her fathers shield the
Aegis witch she used as a
breastplate. She could also hold
the thunder bolts of Zeus. In
Addition she held a shield
bearing the face of the Gorgon
Medusa, and usually holding a
spear. In other sculptures with
Athena she is holding an icon of
the goddess of victory Nike.
Often times Athena is shown
with a snake as well

5. VS Athena, like Prometheus wanted to help humans, they
both found ways to make life easier. Prometheus gave us
the necessary tools for survival like fire and food while
Athena help man thrive by establishing law to control
society and create justice and ships that harness the
power of water and wind. VS

6. Often times Athena watched over heroes such as Perseus,
Heracles, Jason, and Odysseus. She helped the Greeks in
the Iliad by encouraging the rallying troops to fight. Athena
was a strategist in war, apposed to Ares who fought with
unrestrained violence. She was also behind the building of
the Trojan horse.

7. Arachne Arachne is a very skilled weaver and well known to
every one, but she is not very modest about it.
One day she boasts to be better than Athena.
Athena being a fair god appears to Arachne as an
old lady and tells her that If she repents Athena
would forgive her. Arachne then gets angry and
demands that Athena come out and show her skill.
Athena then revealed her true identity as a god.
Arachne then challenges Athena to a weaving
contest.

8. Athena then proceeds to weave the scene of her victory
over Poseidon that had inspired her patronage of Athens,
while Arachne weaves a 21 scene of the infidelity of the
gods: Zeus being unfaithful with Leda, with Europa, with
Danaë. The tapestry that the two wove was flawless and
Athena was outraged by the disrespect that Arachne
displayed towards the gods and the fact that a mortal had
produced a tapestry of equal quality to hers and took a
shuttle of block wood and beat her across the face four
times. Arachne then tried to hang herself rather than live
with the humiliation Athena then took pity on her and turns
her in to a spider.

9. The word arachnid we use today is derived
from this story