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An engraving of Hermathena published in L'Ermatena by Michele Arditi (1816). Hermathena or Hermathene (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαθήνη) was a composite statue, or rather a herm, which may have been a terminal bust or a Janus-like bust, representing the Greek gods Hermes and Athena, or their Roman counterparts Mercury and Minerva.
The Athena Giustiniani, a Roman copy of a Greek statue of Pallas Athena (Vatican Museums) Engraving from the Galleria Giustiniana, c. 1630–1640 (the first publication of the statue) The Athena Giustiniani or Minerva Giustiniani is a Roman marble statue of Pallas Athena , based on a Greek bronze sculpture of the late 5th–early 4th century BCE.
'Athena Speaking in Public') is a Roman marble lifesize sculpture of Athena, the Greek goddess of war and wisdom (known among the Romans as Minerva). It was found in the Roman Forum of the ancient city of Nicopolis in the region of Epirus , and now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Nicopolis near Preveza , in western Greece .
In Roman mythology, Athena was identified with Minerva, who shared many of the traits and characteristics of her Greek counterpart. [14] In relating the Judgement of Paris for Roman audiences, Ovid varies from the Greek traditions regarding Athena by describing Juno, Minerva, and Venus, stripped naked for the Trojan prince's evaluation. [15]
Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools, justice and commerce. She was the Etruscan counterpart to Greek Athena. Like Athena, Minerva burst from the head of her father, Jupiter (Greek Zeus), who had devoured her mother (Metis) in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent her birth.
Athena [b] or Athene, [c] often given the epithet Pallas, [d] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft [2] who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. [3] Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely ...
The painting depicts the story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the weaving contest between the god Athena and the mortal Arachne.In the original myth, Athena challenges Arachne and loses, but Athena punishes Arachne anyway for insulting the gods by not recognizing the divine source of Athena's artistic skill and for creating a more beautiful work than her own.
The Greeks never attributed an association with weather to Athena, [8] making this another important difference between the two religious cults that demonstrates their separate characteristics. Menrva's name is indigenous to Italy and might even be of Etruscan origin, stemming from an Italic moon goddess, *Meneswā 'She who measures'. [ 9 ]