Athena is associated with the city of Athens. The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted … See more

Panhellenic and Athenian cult
In her aspect of Athena Polias, Athena was venerated as the goddess of the city and the protectress of the citadel. In Athens, the Plynteria, or "Feast of the Bath", was observed every year at the end of the month of … See more

Athena appears frequently in classical Greek art, including on coins and in paintings on ceramics. She is especially prominent in works … See more

Athena was originally the Aegean goddess of the palace, who presided over household crafts and protected the king. A single Mycenaean Greek inscription ???????????????????????????? a-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja appears at Knossos in the Linear B tablets from the Late Minoan II-era … See more

Athena was known as Atrytone (Άτρυτώνη "the Unwearying"), Parthenos (Παρθένος "Virgin"), and Promachos (Πρόμαχος "she who fights in front"). The epithet Polias (Πολιάς "of the … See more

Birth
She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, and emerged full-grown from his forehead. … See more

Art and symbolism
Early Christian writers, such as Clement of Alexandria and Firmicus, denigrated Athena as representative of all the things that were … See more