r/Athena

860 archived posts · Nov 2012 – Sep 2026

Athena- Goddess of Wisdom

r/Athena

Forum dedicated to Goddess Athena, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva. This space is for both, worshippers and devotees (Hellenists, or Hellenic Polytheists), and people that are just interested in her persona. Feel free to post and discuss everything releated to her, from worship/religion, myths, altars and history, to your personal artwork and offerings.

Created Nov 9, 2012

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Athena, also spelled Athene, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva. She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many respects of Artemis, goddess of the outdoors. Athena was probably a pre-Hellenic goddess and was later taken over by the Greeks. Yet the Greek economy, unlike that of the Minoans, was largely military, so that Athena, while retaining her earlier domestic functions, became a goddess of war.

She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, so that she emerged full-grown from his forehead. There was an alternative story that Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of counsel, while she was pregnant with Athena, so that Athena finally emerged from Zeus. Being the favourite child of Zeus, she had great power.

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