The crew of Argo would became famous as the Argonauts. As the patron of arts and crafts, Athena was known as Ergane. She was particularly known as the patroness of spinning and weaving. Athena also had the special ability to invent useful items and crafts which were later adopted by women in Ancient Greece. Items said to be invented by her include chariots, plows, ships, rakes and pottery. In Greek m ythology, many gods and goddesses possess the ability to shape-shift , or physically transform o neself.
Athena is also a shape-shifter and can shape-shift at will. Being one of the 12 Olympians and a prominent Greek goddess, Athena has the ability to bless and curse. Once, Athena cursed and transformed Medusa into a terrible monster and thickened her hair into hissing snakes making everyone who looks at her turn into stone.
In another instance, Athena transformed Arachne into a spider. On the contrary, she also p ossesses the power to bless anyone. Athena blessed Tiresias by granting him the ability to understand the language of the birds and also gave him supernatural powers of precognition which led to Tiresias becoming a great prophet.
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Athena then raised her son. In myth, Athena became the patron of Athens through a contest with Poseidon Athena offered the city the olive tree and Poseidon offered a fountain of water, though the water was salty.
The citizens consulted an oracle about what the signs meant and found that they were supposed to vote between the two. At this time, both men and women voted, according to the myth. The vote split along gender lines. The women outnumbered the men and Athena became the patron goddess of Athens.
Poseidon became incensed and flooded Athens until Athenians conceded to limit the status of women. This serves as a charter myth for how Athenian politics were patriarchal.
It may also represent a real choice that Athenians made at a point in their history to depend more on agriculture than on trade. Athena also deals with Poseidon in the Odyssey. She champions for Odysseus, as she did for the Achaeans in the Trojan War. Metis the goddess of prudence , was her mother. Athena is a very humble and modest goddess but she can be quite arrogant when it gets too far into her head , thus rarely punishes people by impulse, although people are not allowed to say they are better at Athena in anything.
Though one time, she did punish someone named Arachne , the mortal goddess of weaving and turned her into a spider that could only weave colorless thread. Arachne mocked Athena by doing a very insulting tapestry about her parents, shown as Zeus having a migraine because of Metis' nagging and buzzing inside his head. Arachne also bragged that her skills were better than Athena's. Her symbol is of an owl next to an olive branch. Both are symbols of Athena. AOE means "Of the Athenians. The Roman side of Athena is completely opposite of her Greek side.
When the Romans "Adopted" the Greek Gods, they changed her personality into a much tamer and nicer goddess named Minerva. In Roman times she was the Goddess of craft and less worshiped. The Romans then created another war goddess named Bellona. Bellona only has a Roman form.
Athena has a gift of one of the most powers on Mount Olympus. Here are some of the many few she has. The gallery of Athena can be found here. Sometimes Athena is not very down-to-earth, and she can be very self-centered and get carried away with her work. Athena even goes crazy if her inventions don't work out very well.
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