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Athena

majorattestedAttested from c. 1200 BCEGreek mythology

Greek goddess of wisdom, craft and war.

Wisdom85

Strategy90

Valor82

Light76

✦Signature powerThe AegisWisdom armed for war, strategy that never loses its head.

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The same idol, across the ages

Scholars have long read Athena as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the divine wisdom.

2400 BCEIsisEgyptian religion 1200 BCEAthenaGreek mythology MythicSophiaGnosticism MythicHokhmahJudaism

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Relics & objects

Sacred and cursed things that belong to the world of Athena.

The Apple of DiscordCursed Pandora's JarCursed

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Illustrated chapters where Athena appears. Start reading in a click.

Illustrated storyPersephone, the Stolen SpringA girl picks a flower grown as a trap, and the earth opens. Hades takes her down to be Queen of the Dead; her mother Demeter stops the world until Olympus negotiates; and one swallowed pomegranate seed writes the terms of the seasons. The Greek descent myth, and the charter of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the ancient world’s best-kept promise about death.Begin reading →