Quotes About Athena

and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die — to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-grey eyes — and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn (R. Fagles translation)

And he, Achilles, will rouse his companion Patroclus, whom shining Hector with his spear will kill in front of Ilion, after Patroclus has destroyed a multitude of other young men, among them my own son, godlike Sarpedon; and enraged at Patroclus dying, godlike Achilles will kill Hector. And from that point, then, without respite, I will effect a retreat from the ships, all the way until that time the Achaeans?70 capture steep Ilion through the designs of Athena.

Sprachs, und entsandte den speer; ihn richtete Pallas Athene Grad am aug in die nas; und die schimmernden zähne durchdrang sie; Auch die zung and der wurzel entschnitt das gewaltie erz ihm, Daß die stürmende Spitze am unteren Kinne hinausfuhr. (Ilias; fünfter Gesang V. 290-293)

Alcinous' daughter Nausicaa was the only one to stand firm. Athena put courage into her heart and took away the fear from her limbs, and she stood her ground and faced him.

All running gear secure in the swift black craft, they set up bowls and brimmed them high with wine and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die—to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-gray eyes— and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.

May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian)

A pettos speckled with gold ajiggle with a fremitus from the heart touches me like Athena's hoolet mewing in uncertain dark. So much is nature, whereon we build our particulars fastidious and critical. Your every arrow O Eros has hit me , as the song goes. O girls, girls. This arrow is Timo's curls, this is Heliodora's shoes, this the smell of quinces that blows from Demo's door, flowers plaited into Dorothea's hair and ox-eyed Antikleia's smile that is music from the islands, summer's stars.

My father, that silhouette, a form comprised of all I did not know, a shape filled with rain. Whenever I asked, she'd say, 'You had no father. I'm your father. You sprang full-blown from my forehead, like Athena.

How to Think Like Athena 1. Remove shoes. Stand on earth. 2. Find your center. Find your balance. 3. Lift chest. Drop shoulders. Let palms fall open at sides. 4. Open lips. Breathe. Feel air pass into self. 5. Open eyes wide. Look to the horizon. 6. Ask, what says the foot? Ask, what says the leg? 7. Ask, what says the sex? Ask, what says the heart? 8. Ask, what sees the eye? Ask, what hears the ear? 9. The mind is the body. Think everywhere at once.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Every time a confident, successful woman like Marissa Meyer distances herself from feminism, I think of Athena. Athena women, with all their brilliance and strategy, are the ones smashing up through layers of glass. They tend to identify with men, keeping femininity at a distance.

Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is?love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia?love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.

Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

la imagen de Atenea, una efigie pequeña, de no más de tres codos, que la representaba de pie, lanza en ristre y tocada con el yelmo.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

Yeah, I have a feeling I'm going to be very happy at Mount Olympus Academy," said Athena. Smiling, she tugged Pallas toward the stairs. "C'mon. I can hardly wait to show you around!

One last look at Athena, and then let the disgrace be complete.

Then Prometheus, in his perplexity as to what preservation he could devise, stole from Hephaestus and Athena wisdom in the arts together with fire -- since by no means without fire could it be acquired or helpfully used by any -- and he handed it there and then as a gift to man.

I have long wondered something," I said. 'When we fought over Athena, how did you know to kneel to me? That it would shame me?' "Ah, it was a guess. something Odysseus said about you once." 'Which was?' "That the had never met a god who enjoyed their divinity less.

The fates were laughing at me, at Athena, at all of us. It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.

You can," I said. "But you have always been cautious, Father. You know I have stood against Athena. I have walked in the blackest deeps. You cannot guess what spells I have cast, what poisons I have gathered to protect myself against you, how your power may rebound upon your head. Who knows what is in me? Will you find out?

But Athena had no babe, and she never would. Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as wisdom.

They named supernatural culprits, and traced their actions to enmities in heaven. Artemis was hostile to Pan, Earth to Apollo, virgin Athena to loving Aphrodite.... Because the gods were `present' and manifest, it was necessary to ask them about [things] which might concern them. Otherwise, they might be `unpropitious'.... The old compound of awe and intimacy was still alive. (Pagans and Christians, Penguin, 1988, pp. 236-37)