About Athena,雅典娜story

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宙斯
波塞冬
赫斯提亞
阿芙羅狄特
阿爾忒彌斯
赫斐斯托斯
狄俄尼索斯


赫拉
哈底斯
得墨忒爾
雅典娜
阿波羅
阿瑞斯
赫耳墨斯


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位於羅浮宮的雅典娜雕像Helmeted Athena, of the Velletri type. Roman copy (1st century CE) of a Greek original by en:Kresilas, ca 430 BC (羅浮宮)[1]
雅典娜（希臘語：Αθηνά）是希臘神話中的智慧女神，也是農業與園藝的保護神、司職法律和秩序的女神，奧林匹斯十二主神之一，據說她傳授給人類紡織、繪畫、雕刻、陶藝，畜牧等技藝，也是女戰神，希臘神話裡英雄海格力斯（Heracles）在制伏妖怪，通常雅典娜會把法寶武器借給海格力斯。

在羅馬神話中與雅典娜相對應是米諾娃（拉丁語：Minerva）。雅典娜是希臘人，尤其是雅典人最崇拜的女神，雅典城是以她命名的，而且是她專有的城市。



傳說
雅典娜是宙斯與聰慧女神墨提斯（Μήτις）所生，有神預言墨提斯所生的兒女有能力推翻宙斯。宙斯感到這將威脅他，於是把墨提斯變成蒼蠅之後將她吞入腹中，吞入後她仍然在宙斯頭內不斷打鐵來為女兒做一套盔甲，讓宙斯頭痛難忍，只好召來火神赫淮斯托斯用一把大斧頭劈開他的頭顱，於是從他的頭裡蹦出來一個全身甲冑和挺舉金矛的女神即雅典娜。



守護神
雅典娜在與海神波塞冬鬥爭獻禮中以賜給雅典公民橄欖樹獲勝，並成為雅典城的保護神。今天雅典衛城中的帕提儂神廟是用來〔祭祀〕她的。






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This marble copy signed ANTIOCHOS is a first century BC copy of Phidias' 5th-century original that stood on the Acropolis
In Greek mythology, Athena (Attic: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη, Athḗnē; Doric: Ἀσάνα, Asána; Latin: Minerva), the shrewd companion of Heroes and the Goddess of Heroic endeavour. She would also come to be known as the goddess of wisdom as philosophy became applied to cult in the later fifth century.[1] She remained the patroness of weaving especially and other crafts (Athena Ergane) and the more disciplined side of war, where she led the battle (Athena Promachos)[2]. Athena's wisdom also includes the cunning intelligence (metis) of such figures as Odysseus.

She is attended by an owl, and is often accompanied by the goddess of victory, Nike, which in established icons she offers upon her extended hand. Wearing a goatskin breastplate called the Aegis given to her by her father, Zeus[3], she is often shown helmeted and with a shield bearing the Gorgon Medusa's head, the gorgoneion, a votive gift of Perseus. Athena is an armed warrior goddess, and appears in Greek mythology as a helper of many heroes, including Heracles, Jason, and Odysseus. In classical myth she never had a consort or lover, and thus was often known as Athena Parthenos ("Athena the virgin"), hence her most famous temple, the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens. In a remnant of archaic myth, she was the mother of Erichthonius by the attempted rape by Hephaestus, which failed.[4]

In her role as a protector of the city, Athena was worshiped throughout the Greek world as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). She had a special relationship with Athens, as is shown by the etymological connection of the names of the goddess and the city.[5]

Mythology



Birth of Athena, daughter of Zeus
Athena is most commonly described as the daughter of Zeus. It is also often implied[citation needed] that she is his first-born child, which accords her special status: the weapons for which she is so famous are the thunderbolt and the aegis, which she and he share exclusively, .



The Olympian version


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Athena born from Zeus' forehead