Athena

How To Use Athena In A Sentence

• Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai (the plural form of the word) was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena.
• Athena, disguised like a Trojan, finds the archer Pandarus to shoot an arrow at Menelaus.
• Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict. March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
• Athena used the disguise of Mentor to advise and stand beside her beloved Odysseus.
• Nestor prays for them as they arrive and the pair pours libations to Athena.
• In the end the jurymen are divided in their decision, and Athena casts the deciding vote, acquitting Orestes.
• He offered him a whole square next to that where the college, the courthouse, the church, the library, the athenaeum, and all the public buildings were situated .... Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
• In the teaser for season 4.5 there is a shot of a bunch of Sharons giving Boomer a rubdown - oops, nope, that is not what is happening - it looks upon closer inspection that Tyrol's hammy hand is holding something and aiming for Athena-Sharon's neck as she runs and holds Hera. Archive 2008-11-01
• Located on the acropolis at Lindos, the shrine of Athena is alleged to have been founded by the mythical king Danaos.
• Hipparchos patronized performers like Anakreon and Simonides, embellished the herms he set up throughout Attica with gnomic sayings, and added Homeric recitals to the Panathenaia.