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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.
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.
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 ...
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]
Athena: Minerva: Goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare. [28] The daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid Metis, she rose from her father's head fully grown and in full battle armor. Her symbols include the owl and the olive tree. Hephaestus: Vulcan: Master blacksmith and craftsman of the gods; god of the forge, craftsmanship, invention, fire and ...
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.
The Etruscan original to the Roman Minerva, made into Greek Athena. [28] Munthukh: Goddess of love and health, and one of the attendants of Turan: Nethuns: Italic divinity, probably Umbrian, of springs and water, [35] identified with Greek Poseidon and Roman Neptune, from which the name comes. [36]
'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 .