concept

Birth of Athena

Myth & story

The named Hellenic episode of Athena springing armed from Zeus’s head. Not Athena as the goddess alone, and not every miraculous birth motif.

Also known as Athena’s birth

Hellenic religion

  • Birth of Athena appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias recounts Athena’s birth from Zeus among Acropolis image and pediment speech. A named birth-of-Athena telling in that periegesis, not athena being alone and not every cosmogony dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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