Athena
Generation VI · Wisdom and warcraft · The Olympians · Heroes & Monsters
Warned that his first wife Metis would one day bear a son mightier than himself, Zeus swallowed her whole while she carried their daughter, and in time Athena sprang from his split brow full-grown and fully armed, her war-cry ringing across heaven. Goddess of counsel, craft, and disciplined battle, she gave Athens its olive tree and its name, winning the city from Poseidon by the better gift.
One of 90 people of The Olympians in this archive. The gods who took Olympus from the Titans and kept it.
One of 77 people of Heroes & Monsters in this archive. The mortal and half-mortal children of the gods, and the creatures born beside them.
Line of descent: Chaos → Gaia → Uranus → Cronus → Zeus → Athena.
Parents
Siblings
- Aglaea (half)
- Apollo (half)
- Ares (half)
- Artemis (half)
- Atropos (half)
- Calliope (half)
- Clio (half)
- Clotho (half)
- Dike (half)
- Dionysus (half)
- Eileithyia (half)
- Eirene (half)
- Erato (half)
- Eunomia (half)
- Euphrosyne (half)
- Euterpe (half)
- Hebe (half)
- Helen (half)
- Heracles (half)
- Hermes (half)
- Lachesis (half)
- Melpomene (half)
- Minos (half)
- Persephone (half)
- Perseus (half)
- Polydeuces (half)
- Polyhymnia (half)
- Rhadamanthys (half)
- Terpsichore (half)
- Thalia (half)
- Thalia (half)
- Urania (half)