With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a ...
In a passage in the Iliad, Ares speaks with Zeus after Athena ... His first acts were to erect a wooden statue of Athena and to found the Panathenaia, a festival in honor of the goddess.