CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Horse Training, Odysseus, Athena
24 Feb 2015
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Pallas athena (roam name: minerva): greek is athena but both call her pallas. Intro: birth sprang from zeus" head as a full adult with full armour, military prowess: warrior goddess, wisdom, masculine virginity, was not born from a female. Nature: military prowess always positively portrayed goddess compared to the other gods/goddesses, panoply, battles: ares at troy. She fought for greeks against the trojans at troy, than all. God of war, ares, got owned by athena as she picked up a rock and threw it over. Goddess of intelligent war, while ares is god of senseless and bloody wars: intelligent war ex. Restraining achilles, he was going to kill high king. She was a skilled weaver, but never prayed to. She believed that all the skill was from her instead of thanking athena for her skills. Then she became cocky and challenged athena to a contest and. Athena beat her up and arachne committed suicide by hanging herself out of humiliation.
