ENGL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aphrodite Pandemos, Bsc Young Boys, Coeus
31 May 2016
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Athena, patron goddess of athens and goddess of war and wisdom (strategy and thoughtful warfare) Metis goddess of wisdom (mother of athena, in some myths) Metis would give birth to a son who would overthrow his father (prophecy) Most accounts, zeus swallows her alive while she is pregnant. Zeus gets migraines as athena is being born. Because she is being born of the head of a man, she is more masculine, and thinks with her head instead of her passion. Patron of crafts (goddess of weaving and pottery) Parthenon is the largest and most principle building on top of the acropolis. East side of temples are for the peace, west side are for the violence. A challenge to become the main deity between athena and poseidon, he lost, fussed a bit, but was still worshipped in athens. The persians swallowed all other great empire of the time (500 bce) except greece, but including egypt, asia, etc.
