Download Athena: Goddess of Wisdom

~Family Tree~
~Athena’s Origin~
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Zeus and Metis
Oracle at Delphi
Real-Life Charades
Zeus Inhales his Wife
Sits in his brain
Guides him from there
However …
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Metis already pregnant
Zeus starts to get headaches
Hephaestus to the rescue
Athena springs out
Fully grown and armed
Becomes favored child
~Athena!~
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Name stands for “the mind of God”
Goddess of Wisdom
Goddess of Strategic Warfare
Goddess of the Arts
– Arachne
• Patron Goddess of Athens
– Origin story
• Symbols are Olive Tree and Owl
– Nike
~Connection to Oedipus~
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Oedipus and his problem solving
Mentioned in the first choral ode
“Golden daughter” - Parthenon
Teiresias saw Athena bathing naked
– Blinded him
– Gave him the gift of augury
– Became a seer for 7 generations at Thebes
• Athena aided the founding of Thebes
• Cadmus and his origin
~Greek Society and the Gods~
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Disrespecting the Gods meant punishment
The Oracle at Delphi was blind
The story of Paris (Trojan War)
Shrines in every home
The plague on the city
Demigods
"A day can press down all human things,
and a day can raise them up. But the gods
embrace men of sense and abhor the evil."
-Athena to Odysseus
~Works Cited~
"ClassicNotes: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus the King Full
Analysis." ClassicNotes: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus the King Full
Analysis. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.bsu.edu/classes/magrath/hon201/oedtcrit.html>.
D'Aulaire, Ingri, and Edgar Parin. D'Aulaire. D'Aulaire's Book of Greek
Myths. Doubleday Book for Young Readers: Doubleday, 1962. Print.
"General Information on Athena." ThinkQuest. Oracle Foundation, n.d.
Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
"Thebes." Ancient History Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.ancient.eu.com/Thebes_(Greece)/>.
"Tiresias." Tiresias. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tiresias.html>.
"Tiresias." Tiresias. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
<http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Tiresias.h
tml>.