Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis and one of the twelve Olympian deities the Greeks believed ruled over the cosmos. She was the goddess of wisdom and war, but also of crafts and weaving.

Black actress Lupita Nyong'o has been selected to play Goddess Athena in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The ...

One interesting thing about the Athena Parthenos, however, is that this glorious expression of Athens' patron goddess stood on ... between Athenians and Olympians, is not one so much of kind ...

The canonical number of Olympians was 12, but sources disagree about who ... As one of the three virgin goddesses (along with Athena and Hestia), she never married and had rather severe notions about ...

Nike was the Greek goddess of victory and an attendant of Zeus. While not among the 12 Olympian gods, she is described as a ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess ... is known as Athena rather than Minerva—the ancient Roman equivalent of the Olympian ...

Princess Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi have announced the birth of their second child together, a baby girl called Athena Elizabeth Rose—whose name has a very special meaning.

King of the Olympians and God of thunder ... The other main gods and goddesses are: Poseidon: God of the sea.Athena: Goddess of wisdom and war.Dionysus: God of wine and fruitfulness.Aphrodite ...