Athena In Greek Religion

In the heavenly realms of Mount Olympus, the battle cry of a warrior resonates through the Earth—bringing forth the birth of a new deity. Springing forth from the head of her father, Zeus, the Goddess of wisdom and war, Athena, is armed with a spear and a piercing intellect match as she guides heroes and Grecians alike as a powerful deity in the ancient Mediterranean. Moreso representing the immortal spirit of wisdom, Athena is also known as a deity of guidance, war strategy, courage, civilization, heroic endeavor, law and justice, mathematics, the arts, crafts, skill, and widely renowned as the the virgin patroness of the Greek city-state, Athens, (in addition to other Greek city-states.) Among the complexities and graces of Athena's character,

The origins of Athena are such that, yet the reverence for the Goddess was so persistent over time that archaic myths about her maintained aspects about her throughout adaptations to the various cultural changes throughout the Mediterranean. In author Jefferey Hurwitt's study of the Acropolis in the book, The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present, he theorizes that evidence of Athena first appears not in the Athenian Acropolis, but in heavily fortified Mycenaean citadels and cult centers, whose imagery appears closely to how the Greeks identified the armor-clad Athena. For instance, in a golden ring found in Mycenae and a similar Mycenaean fresco show a deity figure armed with Athena's traditional weapons of a spear, and shield; with these images from Mycenae perhaps other symbolism can be found which can link back to the

Unfortunately, it appears that much of the paint has chipped off of the tablet, through from the surviving details, the limbs of the tablet are shown to be painted white, and as per the standard of Late Bronze Age frescos, such practice indicate the armed figure is a female. Utilizing the two images above, Hurwit's theory in Athena's origin further expands the shielded figure as an early depiction of Athena for practical reasons; in that Mycenae is known to who have "two such warrior-goddesses in their pantheon," in addition to being heavily-fortified, city-state of citadels which expounds the necessity of a warrior deity