It is said (and this is according to a text about greek myths) that the God Zeus lusted after Metis the Titaness and in an attempt to prevent her from giving birth to a son that would end his life, he opened his mouth and ate her. He eventually had this massive headache, and with the help of some friends (At least I am assuming they were) they cracked his head open and out jumped Athene fully armed, and fully grown.
She was then found by the three nymphs of Libya, and raised.
So does this mean she sprang From Zeus' head fully grown and then managed to find a way of reverting back to a child so that she could be raised?
Or did she spring from Zeus' head as a child holding adult sized battle equipment.
In either case why wasn't she put in a juvenile detention centre for harming another person. Actually it was two. Because she also killed her friend Pallas while they were playing.
2007-03-21 23:58:54 · 10 answers · asked by Spikey and Scruffy's Mummy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I am asking this question cause I wish to fully understand how much of a little b*tch the Goddess I was named after was.
I would really appreciate any help you can give.
Please no nasty answers.
2007-03-22 00:01:33 · update #1
YOur name is Athena? ooh, nice! She was NOT a *****... Read a bit more into her Graceful wisdom and you will come to understand Her greatness. The thing is, they all worked as a coherent WHOLE... not as parts. Athena was the ONLY God(ess) to not be created by rape, cross-breeding, et cetera... Metis, was a goddess of Crafts... and thus when Zeus synthesized with her (ate her) Athena was produced... the Philosopher's Stone (you could say)... the image of complete purity. She was virginal as well.
2007-03-22 00:07:54 · answer #1 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I am a HUGE Greed God fan so I can answer this no problem. Well first of all he didn't eat her somehow he had her body go into his without eating her because he never digested her or anything. Her body and his were like one. And Athena did jump out of his head but it didn't take any gods to crack his head open. And she did come out fully grown wtih armer but he never made her young again. You can find that information in almost any book I think the one that you are reading is off. Because I have read a millian of books on that and they all say the same not what your reading. They say what I told you. And now Athena is also Zues's favorite daughter.
2007-03-22 00:36:15 · answer #2 · answered by Asheera 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should realize that contradictions abound in all reigions. I was quitre fascinated by Greek myths when I was a boy. Different poets told differnt stories. As you notice, There is contradiction in the story of Athene. Congratulations on not writing Athena! Achilles is said to have been made invulnerable by being dipped in the grim River Styx when he was a baby, except the heel, by his mother Thetis.. In the "Iliad", he iis wounded by Asteropaeus, , who threw two spears simultaneously. Achilles blocked one, but the other grazed his arm. Different accounts say Helen went willingly with Paris and that he abducted her. Some say Heracles the strongest man in history was 15' tall (I calculate he'd wegh 4000 lbs or more), while others say he was normal in height but massively-muscled. I am an artist and used myself as a model for Heracles. I am 6'1", 340 lbs. with huge muscles and squat with 780 lbs. The point is that you will see many differing accounts in myths. Choose whichever one you like best and forget about trying to make them consistent. That will never be.
2007-03-22 03:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Athena/Athene is my favourite goddess. She really wasn't a *****, but she was fiesty.
It is true that Zeus ate Metis and Athena was 'born' from his head. It was actually Hephaestus who cut her out. She was fully grown and fully dressed in her battle attire, as you said. I think that the fact that she sprung from her father's head gives plausibiltity to the fact that she was the goddess of knowledge and, to a lesser extent, warfare. She is fantastic and has helped many people in history/mythology, notably Bellophoron, to whom she gave the enchanted bridle to help him become the only man to ever tame Pegasus. She was truly wonderful in my opinion. I think you should be very proud of your name.
2007-03-22 00:52:23 · answer #4 · answered by Kreen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even those days the message from the authors was that it is all in the minds and heads that we create our fears and subjects of our own passions and dislikes! The virtual reality was known in some other name, but the unreal has been there all the time, all these years, right from the time the human was born! Build up on these stories, if you like, but don't let the stories build passions in you!
2007-03-22 00:42:56 · answer #5 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Athena was also the goddess of wisdom and considered a perfect woman because she was pretty and smart.
2007-03-22 06:11:35 · answer #6 · answered by StormyC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you so concern how she was born. It's only mythology. Its not real its myth.
2007-03-22 01:38:37 · answer #7 · answered by maran 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
huh
2007-03-22 00:07:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The following are sites for Athena. They also give information
on other Greek gods, heros, and culture, and their Latin
counterparts:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/athena.html
(Perseus Encyclopedia)
http://www.moonspeaker.ca/Athena/athenamain.html
http://zero-point.tripod.com/pantheon/Athena.html
(analysis)
http://www.desy.de/gna/interpedia/greek_myth/greek_myth.html
http://www.theoi.com/olympios/artemis.html
http://www.loggia.com/myth/athena.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Athena.html
http://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Athena/athena.html
http://waltm.net/athena.htm
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Athena.html
http://www.mythweb.com/gods/Athena.html
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9010063/Athena
http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/greek_goddess_athena.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/p/Athena.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3449/athena.html
http://www.hranajanto.com/GoddessGallery/athena.html
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/atheneum/athene.html
http://www.athenasoft.org/sub/goddess.htm
http://www.elysiumgates.com/mt_olympus/histathena.html
http://www.ancient-empires.com/athena.html
http://www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/0500/athena.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/cig/mythology/first-war-first-peace-athena.html
http://www.freewebs.com/adara/allaboutathena.htm
http://www.ascension-research.org/athena.html
http://www.messagenet.com/myths/bios/athene.html
http://web.uvic.ca/athena/bowman/myth/gods/athene_t.html
http://www.timetrips.co.uk/athena.htm
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~setareh/Athena.htm
http://groups.msn.com/kosmosgenesis/athena.msnw
http://www.goldenageproject.org.uk/237athena.html
http://www.columbia.edu/~jac34/athena.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112190/athena.htm
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/themagazine/vol7/athena.shtml
(e-magazine)
http://www.rahoorkhuit.net/goddess/ancient_priestesses/goddess_of_the_sun.html
http://www.mythinglinks.org/euro~west~greece~Athena.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/athena?method=22
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Greeks/athena/athena.html
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/goddess_weekly/62833
http://www.athena-divinewisdom.com/index.htm
http://encarta.msn.com/Athena.html
http://www.loggia.com/myth/galleryathena.html
http://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Athena/athena.html
http://deoxy.org/gaia/goddess.htm
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/MCL/Classics/Athena/Athena.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shrinetoathenapromachos/
(Encyclopedia)
www.pantheon.org
http://athena_mm.tripod.com/athena.htm
http://www.123helpme.com/assets/9012.html
(free essays)
http://www.noteaccess.com/APPROACHES/AGW/Athena.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/65/at/Athena.htm
(Columbia Encyclopedia, and others)
http://www.greekspider.com/greekgods/athena.htm
http://www.lycos.com/info/metis--athena.html
(LYCOS RETRIEVER)
http://www.gurupedia.com/a/at/athena.htm
http://www.themystica.com/mythical-folk/articles/athena.html
http://www.gaiadreaming.org/pellet/winter2001/5.pdf
http://www.lucaslearning.com/myth/pdf/athena.pdf
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Athena/athena.html
http://freespace.virgin.net/athesa.mills/athene1.htm
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/A/Athena.html
(encyclopedia)
http://www.world-mysteries.com/gw_rbjohnson.htm
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Athena
http://help.com/post/44587-i-need-a-speech-abou-athena-help
(ask for other help topics)
http://www.softassteel.com/myth/story5/
http://persephones.250free.com/athena.html
http://www.freeessays.cc/db/34/mci0.shtml
http://www.crystalinks.com/athena.html
http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Athena
(encyclopedia)
http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/athena.htm
http://www.circlesanctuary.org/circle/articles/pantheon/athena.html
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0805189.html
(Atlas, Almanacs, Dictionary, Encyclopedia)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/athena
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=athena
http://www.in2greece.com/english/history
http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/
http://ancienthistory.about.com/
http://gogreece.about.com/cs/mythology
http://www.loggia.com/myth
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
http://www.messagenet.com/myths
http://library.oakland.edu/information/people/personal/kraemer/edcm/index.html
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia
http://www.worldbook.com
www.encarta.com
http://www.bigpedia.com
www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org
http://www.egnu.org
(Encyclopedia of Thelema)
http://www.occultopedia.com
2007-03-22 00:24:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes!! they do.
2007-03-22 02:48:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋