Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek ...

The golden statue ... meter high goddess of victory holds in her right hand an olive branch as a symbol for peace and in her left hand the Palladion, an image of the goddess Athena, who stands ...

His first acts were to erect a wooden statue of Athena and to found the Panathenaia, a festival in honor of the goddess. Athena is the patron goddess of crafts, so she took offense when a woman ...