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athena
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What does athena mean?
proper noun
- The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.
- A city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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noun
- (derogatory, figuratively) A woman who colludes with the patriarchy rather than actively opposing it.
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Athena caused the first olive-tree to grow on the Acropolis of Athens, parent of all the olive-trees of Greece.
Where was the great crocus-coloured robe, on which the gods fought against the giants, that had been worked by brown girls for the pleasure of Athena?
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The pagans had always adored purity: Athena, Artemis, Vesta.
After the original race of mankind had been destroyed in the great flood of Deucalion, the Greek Noah, Zeus commanded Prometheus and Athena to create men afresh by moulding images out of clay, breathing the winds into them, and making them live.
The new moon behind her head, an old helmet upon it, a diadem of accidental dewdrops round her brow, would have been adjuncts sufficient to strike the note of Artemis, Athena, or Hera respectively, with as close an approximation to the antique as that which passes muster on many respected canvases.