She was recorded to have been a witness during Jason's attempt to rescue the Golden Fleece. Athena also supported Perseus in his quest to obtain the head of Medusa.
During the Trojan War, Athena actively supported the Greeks and helped guide Telemachus to regain control of Ithaca during Odysseus' absence. World View. What Were Athena's Powers? More From Reference. As soon as Zeus had fallen asleep, all four of them quickly bound the King of Olympus with the magical ropes. Even chained up and completely immobilized, an infuriated Zeus looked very intimidating. Poseidon attempted to reason with his brother and demanded that Zeus be a better ruler, but Zeus refused, which prompted Hera to advocate leaving him chained up in his chambers until he agrees.
Shortly thereafter, the four Olympians departed for the Hall of the Gods for the first and last democratic meeting of the Olympian Council, which proved to be a very cumbersome task. The violently thrashing and bellowing King of Olympus was found by the Nereid Thetis.
After convincing Zeus to not throw the rioters into Tartarus , Thetis then sought out the help of the Hekatonkheire Briares , who freed Zeus from Athena's magical ropes. Subsequently, Zeus grabbed his Master Bolt and stormed into the throne room.
After unleashing his divine wrath upon them, he punished almost all the rebels for their treason. Apollo and Poseidon were temporarily stripped of their godly powers and forced to work as laborers on Earth for years, while Hera was tied up and suspended on a rope across the Void of Chaos. Soon, Hera was freed by Hephaestus. Fortunately for her, Athena managed to completely evade Zeus's punishment by talking herself out of it, as well as due to their extremely close relationship as father and daughter although it's quite possible Zeus didn't trust Athena as much as he used to since he gained a long-lasting distrust for Poseidon and Apollo from the riot and she was the one who wove the net the rioters used to capture Zeus, but eventually he got over it.
When Eris hurled the Apple of Discord into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, bearing the inscription "For the fairest", Athena was one of the candidates who competed for it.
The Trojan prince Paris was chosen to judge who was the most beautiful of the three goddesses: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Athena offered to make Paris wiser in battle if he chose her. However, she lost to Aphrodite, for Paris preferred the offer of the love goddess.
She mostly helped Odysseus, whom she finally gave the idea of the Trojan Horse. She also helped the hero Diomedes defeat Ares in a duel. In the course of the war, she cursed Ajax the Lesser with madness. After Zeus allowed the Olympians to directly participate in the war, Athena and Ares engaged in single combat, in which she emerged as the victor and forced her half-brother to flee the battlefield.
When Aphrodite attempted to help her, Athena also defeated her. Athena would later assist Odysseus again multiple times during his long journey back home to Ithaca. Athena is seen when her daughter, Annabeth , is being lured by the Sirens , described as wearing hiking boots and jeans and casual clothing.
She was sitting with Luke Castellan and Annabeth's father, Dr. Frederick Chase , supposedly at a picnic in the redesigned Manhattan that Annabeth designed. Athena disguises herself as a park ranger at the Hoover Dam and advises Percy on how to escape from the Skeleton Warriors Percy later realized it was her since she had Annabeth's storm-gray eyes. It is likely that her desire to see her daughter Annabeth saved outweighed her misgivings of him testifying that Athena truly loves Annabeth.
At the Winter Solstice , when Zeus asks the council if Percy should be left alive as he could be dangerous, Athena, Ares and Dionysus half-heartedly don't raise their hands to defend him, but they were out-ruled by the majority. She later tells Percy not to judge her too harshly and that he is a big risk to take. Percy replies by saying, " So you're saying you shouldn't take risks? Percy is understandably outraged by the thought that a desire to help those he loves could be considered a flaw, but Athena tells him that the most dangerous flaws are those that are good under the right circumstances and that as a hero of a prophecy his flaw could cause the downfall of the world.
Percy wants to argue, but is left speechless, thinking "she is pretty darn smart". She leaves after warning him that she does not approve of his relationship with her daughter based on her rivalry with Poseidon. Upon Annabeth finding Percy with her, Athena moves on and Annabeth realizes that her mother was giving him a hard time much to her grief.
During the Battle of Manhattan , Athena realizes that Typhon is a distraction that Kronos sent through the United States to get the gods away from Olympus so he could send his army to overtake it.
She finally convinces Zeus to send Hermes to tell the demigods that it is a trap. She also reminded him to stay away from her daughter, to the anger of both Percy and Annabeth. Despite her help, many demigods from Camp Half-Blood died in the process of defending their parents' thrones. After the war, Athena tasks Annabeth as the designer to rebuild Olympus and praises her daughter's abilities in front of everyone, making Annabeth very proud.
Athena votes for awarding Percy with immortality, though she turns to look at Annabeth when she says this and most likely noticed her daughter's stricken expression at the thought of losing Percy.
After the council meeting, Athena privately talks to Percy saying that she could have been wrong about him, but not necessarily say she was. She also asked why Percy would give up immortality.
He first says that he could not leave Annabeth before quickly adds that he couldn't leave his friend Grover either. Athena quickly tells Percy to "spare her" and disappears in a column of flames that singes his shirt after warning Percy she has given him the benefit of the doubt and not to "mess up".
She also mentioned a meeting with her mother about a month ago, where she was given the worst present of her life from her meeting. The Romans, after conquering the Greeks, decided to crush their rivals by stealing the Athena Parthenos , breaking both their and Athena's spirit.
The Romans changed Athena and reduced her to a goddess of crafts and wisdom, taking away her title as a war goddess and replacing her with other gods like Bellona and Mithras , much to her anger. Since her counterpart, Minerva, was a strict maiden, Reyna , Octavian , Terminus , and the other Romans at New Rome were distraught to see her daughter Annabeth, calling it scandalous. While on the Argo II on the way to Rome , Annabeth recalls her meeting with Athena prior to the beginning of the journey.
Annabeth thought she saw her mother near Sweet in America where she was studying a map, wishing that Odysseus was there to aid her. Annabeth tried to talk to her, but she was in the form of Minerva and had no recollection of Annabeth as her daughter.
She claimed that the Romans reduced her importance, but Annabeth states that Athena is not about revenge. As Minerva however, the goddess only seems to crave vengeance for how they disgraced her.
When Annabeth asks for help on locating Percy, she says that since Percy has allied with the Romans, he should perish with them and then she hands Annabeth a coin. She then tells Annabeth to avenge her and to "follow the mark," before restating she needed to find the way home. In Charleston , Aphrodite states that Athena was affected the most by the splitting of the Greek and Roman gods, because she was the most worshiped Greek god, being the patron of Athens itself.
Later, in the lair of Arachne , Annabeth states that Arachne was better than Athena in the weaving of tapestries and starts to doubt her mom's ability as several of Arachne's weavings are better than those of her mother. After trapping the spider in a Chinese finger-cuff that she got Arachne to weave, Annabeth gloats on how the arachnid had done a great service to Athena by protecting the Athena Parthenos , but Arachne decides to destroy her lair instead of seeing Annabeth win.
Before the floor completely caves in, the Argo II blasts a hole in the ceiling and saves Annabeth as Arachne fell into the pit to Tartarus. They load the statue of Athena onto the Argo II , but Arachne managed to pull Annabeth and Percy into the pit using her thread that was still attached to Annabeth. Athena appears in Annabeth 's dream while she is in Tartarus with Percy , telling her that she has done well in her quest to retrieve the Athena Parthenos.
However, she also tells her that the statue has to be returned by the Romans at Camp Half-Blood , in order to seal the rift between both camps.
When Reyna fights the giant Orion , her sheer bravery greatly impresses Athena, who gives her part of her Aegis for her cloak. The Aegis shields Reyna from a powerful blast and she is stunned when Athena speaks to her to tell her about giving her Aegis.
During Reyna's subsequent attack on Orion, she can sense both Athena and Bellona supporting her, though neither appears in person to help. Instead, they give Reyna the strength she needs to kill Orion on her own. Reyna is able to use her Aegis-infused cloak to strangle Orion to death. When Reyna, with the help of six pegasi , finally manages to place the Athena Parthenos on Half-Blood Hill , golden light ripples across the ground, seeping warmth into the bones of both Greek and Roman demigods and curing all of the Olympians including Athena of their split personalities.
As a result, Athena promptly arrives in Athens to participate in the final battle with the Giants. She is dressed in full Greek battle armor and helps her daughter Annabeth slay Enceladus , after which Hades sends his body back to Tartarus. Athena's sanity is fully restored and no longer afflicted by her vengeful Roman counterpart, Minerva. After the Giants' defeat, Athena is seen later rebuking the advancements of Hermes with her fearsome Aegis shield, and gives advice to the Olympian council giving Jason a glance of approval when the demigods are trying to decide on the best way to reach Camp Half-Blood in time to stop Gaea and the Romans from attacking.
Poseidon agrees that "for once" she is right. While facing the hybrid god Serapis , Annabeth finds out that Athena has removed all of her books from her backpack and left her a square of ambrosia and her magical Yankees cap instead. Annabeth is stunned as the cap hasn't worked since her argument with Minerva and realizes that if Athena herself is getting involved, Serapis must truly be a major threat.
Using her restored cap, Annabeth and Sadie Kane are able to defeat Serapis. After the battle, Annabeth plays with the cap and thinks about why Athena had given it back to her with its magic restored. Annabeth feels like Athena seems to be sending her a message: "there will always be threats too powerful to face head-on.
You are not done with stealth. You must tread carefully here. Magnus Chase mentioned her as the mother of his cousin Annabeth. She feels her brother is close to failure. Two weeks later, she attends a meeting to welcome Apollo back to Olympus and she reveals she won the wager on his life, believing that he would win. After the meeting she leaves. As the goddess of wisdom, Athena is exceptionally brilliant, quick-witted, and disciplined. She always takes precautions before acting and is the type of person who disapproved of taking considerable risks, which was the reason for her voting against letting Percy live in The Titan's Curse.
Though this obviously left him with a negative opinion of her and made her seem cold and calculating, he still conceded with the reasons for her perspective and her opinion of his weaknesses.
He actually noted that she might be the worst enemy someone could make, for she would never give up or make a rash mistake simply because she hated someone. Athena has a soft side for those who seek knowledge and tries to help them as much as she can. Examples of this include Odysseus, Perdix and Frederick Chase, whom she protected and greatly supported.
In battle, Athena is a fierce, astute, and extremely unpredictable warrior and tactician. Despite her calm and reserved demeanor, she could become intensely focused in a duel, to the extent where one could easily believe that she and her sparring partner were actually fighting to the death. An example of this could be seen in Percy Jackson's Greek Gods , where she sparred with her friend Pallas so viciously that a concerned Zeus intervened.
Athena is renowned for her frequent assistance of heroes on their quests, even if those heroes weren't her own children, such as Reyna whom she grants part of her own Aegis and her strength in the battle with Orion. She is able to put aside personal grudges at least for a time to either help those who were in desperate need or to serve the greater good of all.
Here is an overview of the major powers of the Greek Goddess Athena. Athena represents the ultimate powerful woman in the Olympian pantheon and has numerous temples and monuments dedicated to he r.
As the daughter of Zeus, the king of gods, A thena is regarded as the patron and protecto r of various cities across Greece , particularly the city of Athens , from which she most likely received her name.
Her temples were usually located atop the fortified acropolis in the central part of the city. The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis was the most notable among them. In Greek mythology, all the Olympian gods are immortal, including Athena. Athena is the goddess of wisdom, handicraft and warfare.
This made her especially important to the ancient Greeks as they saw her as their patron and protector. Athena, like most Greek goddesses, had the gift of eternal youth , which meant that, unlike mortals, she would always look young and beautiful.
Apart from immortality and being eternally youth, s he was also one of the most intelligent and wisest of the Greek d eities. Athena is o ne of the most powerful goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. Once, she empowered the mortal prince Argive , who struck a blow on Ares, the God of War, so powerful that it nearly killed him.
She can fly at great speed; render herself and other beings invisible from mortal eye sight; create illusory images; and also give the gift of foresight to mortals. Athena is considered m ore perceptive than the other deities and she possess ed a degree of cosmic awareness. Athena is the goddess of war and she was seen as a female counterpart to Ares, the God of War.
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