雅典娜的英文介绍
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ATHENE (or Athena) was the great Olympian goddess of wise counsel, war, the defense of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and crafts. She was depicted crowned with a crested helm, armed with shield and spear, and wearing the snake-trimmed aigis cloak wrapped around her breast and arm, adorned with the monstrous head of the Gorgon. The most famous myths of Athene include: Her birth from the head of Zeus, fully-grown and arrayed in arms; Her contest with Poseidon for dominion of Athens in which she produced the first olive tree and he the first horse; The War of the Giants in which she buried Enkelados beneath Mount Etna and made her aigis from the skin of Pallas; The attempted rape of the goddess by Hephaistos, who spilled his seed upon the earth and produced Erikhthonios, who she then adopted as her own; The assisting of Perseus in his quest to slay the Gorgon and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece; The assisting of Herakles with his twelve labours; The weaving contest with Arakhne who was transformed by the goddess into a spider; The blinding of Teiresias for viewing her naked in the bath; The Judgement of Paris in which she competed with Hera and Aphrodite for the prize of the golden apple; The Trojan War where she sided with the Greeks in battle, but attacked their ships with a storm when they failed to punish Oilean Ajax for violating her Trojan shrine. This site contains a total of 6 pages describing the goddess, the content of which is outlined in the table below. NB The Athene pages are still under construction
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