God/ Goddess of Reason?

Question

Anyone know if there's a Greek, Roman, or any other culture's God, Goddess, Or deity figure that represents something along the lines of reason, rationality, and order??

Answer 1

athena/minerva is the goddess of rational thinking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess_of_Reason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason

http://waltm.net/athena.htm

Answer 2

Yes, for the Greeks it was Zeus the Counselor and Athena.

The Greek word "metis," which was a title of Zeus, and as a person, Metis, the mother of Athena, means counsel, reason, strategy, good advice.

Hermes was also identified with the Egyptian Thoth and represented as the god of knowledge, invention, language and reason.

Of for something more obscure Philosophia, the Greek personification of philosophy, or the Muse invoked by Plato and the philosophers.

Hermes and the Muses were the patron gods of ancient education. The famous Lycaeum school of Athens was dedicated to Hermes.

Answer 3

In ancient Greece, Athena was the goddess of wisdom and reason. She was the child of Zeus and Metis, and sprang fully grown from Zeus' head. She was the most clever of the gods, and the only one other than Zeus that could bear his lightning bolts.

While she was very smart, she doesn't seem immune to violence or passion. When Medusa was raped in her temple, Athena turned her into a monster to represent her rage against men.