Athena

Athena's Birth

Athena is the goddess of wisdom, battle, crafts and plans. Athena is a child of Zeus. She is the brother of Ares and her symbol of power is the owl.She lives in a palace called Athens.

Athena's birth
Athena was born from Zeus's head. Zeus was suffering from a terrible headache and ordered Hephaestus to crack open his head, then Athena rose in full battle armor. She became Zeus's favourite child and Zeus let Athena use all his weapons including his prized weapon the lightningbolt!

Athena and Medusa
Back when Medusa was pretty, Poseidon and Medusa had a date in Athena's temple. When
Athena found out about this she turned Medusa into a monster that was so ugly that whenever someone looks directly into her eyes they turn to stone.

The Fight Over Athens

The fight over Athens began when Athena and Poisidon both wanted Athens so they had a competion.The competion was that they had to make a gift for Athens and the people of Athens would decide who had the better gift and whoever had the better gift would be given Athens.When the two olypians faced off.

Poisidon gave them a neverending trade of water but it was salty.Athena gave them the first olive tree. The people of Athens gave Athena Athens.

Here are some links to different gods and goddesses:

Roman	Greek
Apollo	Apollo
Bacchus	Dionysus
Ceres	Demeter
Cupid	Eros
Diana	Artemis
Juno	Hera
Jupiter	Zeus
Mars	Ares
Mercury	Hermes
Minerva	Athena
Neptune	Poseidon
Pluto	Hades
Proserpina	Persephone
Saturn	Cronus
Uranus	Ouranos
Venus	Aphrodite
Vesta	Hestia
Vulcan	Hephaestus

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Apollo

Apollo is the god of medicine, music and drives the sun. His only sibling is Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt. His father is Zeus and his mother is Hera. He wears armor made of fire when he is in battle and his weapon of choice is the bow and arrow.