English example sentences with "Athena"

When Achilles would draw his sword to slay Agamemnon, Athena, invisible to all else, holds him back by a lock of hair. Here Homer shows us the gods as the psychology of ancient Greece.

"Was not Pallas Athena able to burn the fleet of the Argives, and drown them in the sea, because of the crime and the madness of one man, Ajax son of Oileus?"

Athena is the goddess of wisdom.

The Parthenon is a temple dedicated to Athena.

There used to be a giant statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.

The temple of Athena Nike is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens.

The temple of Athena Nike is dedicated to the goddess Athena.

Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom.

Apollo is the brother of Athena.

One might suppose, in reading some modern writers, that the Nymphs and Fauns, the River-Gods and Pan, were at least as prominent in all Greek poetry as Zeus, Apollo, and Athena, or that Apollo was only the sweet singer and not also the prophet of retribution.

Athena is the daughter of Zeus.

I agree completely. Athena was a complete failure as the so-called "goddess of wisdom."

To the Greeks, Athena was something like the Holy Ghost.