Athena

"There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it."

- Athena to Percy Jackson

Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom, Sciences, Strategic and Defensive Warfare, City Defense, the Arts, Crafts, and Skills of the Greco-Roman Pantheon. She holds the sixth throne on the High Olympian Council, as well as the commander of the divine army of Olympus.

She is known and worshipped by the Romans under the form of Minerva. Unlike the other gods, who became more disciplined, she is less warlike and militaristic, being instead a goddess of crafts and wisdom. Because the Romans depicted Minerva as a more cerebral and demure goddess, she dislikes the Romans despite being a Roman god, as they took away all her military importance and authority.

She is the daughter of Metis with Zeus, thus making her a step-child of Hera. She has many half-siblings through her father's numerous affairs, with her being the younger half-sister of Persephone, Hephaestus, Apollo, Artemis, and Ares, and the older half-sister of Hermes and Dionysus in particular.

Despite being a Maiden Goddess who swore off sexual desire, she has many famous half-blood offsprings such as Daedalus, George Washington, Frédéric Bartholdi, etc. The majority of her demigod children is living in Camp Half-Blood.

She's part of the Team Imperial Lords of the Battleground as the replacement "Queen", mainly due to a favor she owned to the its King Verethragna and her brother Ares.

Appearance
Athena appears as a beautiful young woman with marble-like skin and divine beauty. Her light-purple hair is long and touches her heels while her eyes are kaleidoscope, shifting from grey to greenish-blue to the same color as her hair. Her body is described as perfect and put the golden ratio to shame. Following her crimes and banishment, the goddess Nemesis branded her forehead with a crimson mark as a way to remind her of her past crimes against the Pantheon.

When on the battlefield, she wears a golden armor with white clothing underneath, a flowing cape behind her back, embroidered with images of her past victories in golden threads, and her famous spear and shield on her hands. Vali described her in this form to be "... both glorious, yet terrifying at the same time" and "... striking terror into the hearts of her opponents".

In Chapter XXX, when she first appeared to Griselda, Athena appeared as a beautiful young girl around 16 years of age, with dark-colored hair tied into a high ponytail with a black scrunchie, black plaid blazer and short skirt with a dark-grey vest and white dress shirt underneath, knee-length socks and a pair of black mary janes. She was described to be speaking in a New York accent, and had her nails painted black.

When she first appeared to Percy Jackson, she took the form of a park ranger, with long black hair, pulled back in a ponytail and tinted glasses. Later on, she changed into the form of a woman with blonde hair in a beautiful white dress.

Personality
As a 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.

While this obviously left many with a negative opinion of her and made the goddess seemed cold and calculating, she still conceded with the reasons for her perspective and her opinion of her weaknesses. Griselda 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, with the most notable examples being Odysseus and Perdix, both of 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 is where she sparred with her foster sister Pallas so viciously that a concerned Zeus intervened. She is renowned for her frequent assistance of heroes on their heroic endeavor, even if those heroes don’t specifically pray for her help. She is able to put aside personal grudges, or at least for a time, to either help those who were desperate or to serve the greater good. She once helped Bellerophon despite him being a demigod son of Poseidon, assisting him in capturing and taming the famed winged-horse Pegasus, which set him on the path to becoming a hero.

Athena has a sense of justice and fairness that even her own allies and champions aren’t exempt from, an example being how she punished the Greek soldiers on their journey back from Troy for raping and killing innocent Trojan women and children. This extended to those who had offended her, as shown by how, despite her wrath toward Arachne, she still found Arachne’s fellow citizens, who had benefitted from the weaver and yet still quickly turned on her after she mercilessly beat Arachne, to be disgusting for having laughed at the girl. Despite being a War Goddess, Athena doesn’t enjoy combat but rather accepts it as an inevitable necessity at ties, focusing more on minimizing casualties while still trying to achieve victory.

As far as the gods go, Athena could be helpful and sympathetic even to those who had initially offended her, as shown when she blinded the mortal Tiresias after he saw her bathing, she quickly cooled her anger after hearing about his lack of nefarious intentions and how truly apologetic he was about the incident, even gifting him the ability to understand the language of the bird. Even against Arachne, who had earlier greatly offended her for challenging her to a waving contest and mocking the gods with her work, after she hung herself in shame, Athena had enough compassion to turn her into a spider so she and her children could be expert weavers.

Athena despises anything Roman, from the culture, to even the heroes and demigods of the Roman part of her Pantheon. This is due to the Romans not considered Minerva as a true War Goddess, making her more of a defensive/strategic adviser and artist (the Romans looked down upon defensive maneuvers, for the most part, always falling back on them as a last resort even if she completely corrected in suggesting a retreat. This is because the Romans always attacked others to defend themselves). Because of this, she hates the Romans with all her essence and wants every single trait and influence to be erased. Her hatred against Rome even goes as far as allying herself with various other Pantheons subjugated by the Romans to plan a rebellion and brought in Christianity to shake the foundation of the Roman people's faith and belief, allowing the other gods she secretly allied with to rebel against the Olympian gods. Even after the Imperial Roman Pantheon collapsed and she was severely punished by her father, she still harbors great hatred toward Rome and its people.

Athena can be extremely prideful and stern, having a dark side just like other gods: she transformed Arachne into a spider to her hubris and mockery against her and the gods, and cursed the flute (aulos) that she had created only because playing it grotesquely altered her facial features, which eventually led to the death of the satyr Marsyas. After Paris picked Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess instead of her or Hera, Athena took the side of the Greeks in the Trojan War and did everything within her power to bring him down, a testament to her vanity and capacity for vengeance. Hermes stated that one of the first things her children and employees learned is that “Athena is the best at everything and any thought to the contrary is not taken well”, which goes as far as including her own demigod children, showing that even her children aren't immune to the effects of her vanity (hence why hubris is the fatal flaw of her children).

Despite her pride rivaling her father Zeus’, Athena is able to admit that she was wrong, something that isn’t in the nature of most deities, even remotely close.

History
Athena is one of the Twelve Olympians from Classical Mythology who rule over the Greco-Roman Pantheon and was greatly worshipped by humans of Ancient Greece and Rome. She is the Hellenistic Goddess of Wisdom and Good Counsel, War, the Defence of Towns, Heroic Endeavour, Weaving, Pottery and various other crafts.

Powers and Abilities
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Equipment
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Attributes
She was depicted as a stately woman armed with a shield and spear, and wearing a long robe, crested helm, and the famed aigis - a snake-trimmed cape adorned with the monstrous visage of the Gorgon Medousa (Medusa).

Athena's attributes are her spear, the armor, the helmets, the olive trees, the Aegis, and the Gorgoneion. Books, scrolls, and pens are also considered sacred to her, as they represent knowledge.

Her most famous patron city is Athens, which was named by the people after her.

Sacred Animals
Her sacred animals are the owls and the serpents, which represent the wisdom of the sky and the earth respectively.

The gorgons are also considered to be a race blessed by her, as their progenitors (Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa) were originally her High Priestesses.

Harming

 * Magic: Specific magic spells/rituals could affect the gods by harming or even killing them. Some rituals could even seal gods away for all eternity or hold them against their will.
 * Witchcraft: As witchcraft is a type of Magic System created by the infamous Devil Lilith to oppose all those of divine and celestial nature.
 * Lack of Sacrifice/Worship: As the gods drawn most of their divine powers from the faith of their mortal devotees toward them, such as the human sacrifices (virgins) or prayers directing toward them for guidance or any form of aid. However, with the birth of Jesus Christ and the immense influence of the Abrahamic religions, the gods have lost many followers. Currently, in the modern age, most gods have lost the bolstered abilities they gained from worship and reduced back to their basic abilities.

Beings

 * Ancient Monsters: Ancient and powerful monsters, such as Typhon or Fenrir, who have been alive for millennia could take on gods such as Athena. Beasts from the Annihilation Maker could also be created to specifically go against a god like her in nature.
 * Dragons: As one of the most powerful supernatural species, High-Class Dragons could go against lesser gods themselves, with the Dragon King being Chieftain Deity in terms of power while the Heavenly Dragons on par with the primordial gods.
 * Three Factions: Many beings from the Three Factions could kill Athena.
 * Cosmic Entities: The Cosmic Entities could kill any god.
 * Primordial Entities: The Primordial Entities could easily kill any god in existence.

Weapons

 * Wooden Stakes: Specific wooden stakes prepared in witchcraft rituals can kill gods, depending on the type of tree or blood mixed to create them. According to Namaah, however, the trees which produce the woods capable of killing Olympians had been relocated by Aphrodite to an unknown area sometimes during the time of Esther.
 * Divine Weapons: Weapons of divine nature, forged using sacred metals such as Celestial Bronze or Imperial Gold, could be used to kill other gods.
 * Enochian Weapons: Weapons forged using Enochian metals could be used to kill gods.
 * Longinus: The Longinus are the most power Sacred Gears, crafted in the Heavenly Forges using the finest of Enochian metals and imbued with fragments of God's light, and thus possess immense supernatural powers. Skilled and masterful wielders of the Longinus could use their Longinus to kill gods and god-like entities alike.
 * Faustian Weapons: Weapons forged using Faustian metals could be used to kill gods.
 * Primordial Weapons: Weapons wielded by Primordial Entities could be used to kill gods.

Athena
Athena is associated with the city of Athens. The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted to her worship. In ancient times, scholars argued whether Athena was named after Athens or Athens after Athena. Now scholars generally agree that the goddess takes her name from the city; the ending -ene is common in names of locations, but rare for personal names.

Testimonies from different cities in ancient Greece attest that similar city goddesses were worshipped in other cities and, like Athena, took their names from the cities where they were worshipped. For example, in Mycenae there was a goddess called Mykene, whose sisterhood was known as Mykenai, whereas at Thebes an analogous deity was called Thebe, and the city was known under the plural form Thebai (or Thebes, in English, where the 's' is the plural formation). The name Athenai is likely of Pre-Greek origin because it contains the presumably Pre-Greek morpheme *-ān-.

In his dialogue Cratylus, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (428–347 BC) gives some rather imaginative etymologies of Athena's name, based on the theories of the ancient Athenians and his own etymological speculations:

"That is a graver matter, and there, my friend, the modern interpreters of Homer may, I think, assist in explaining the view of the ancients. For most of these in their explanations of the poet, assert that he meant by Athena "mind" [νοῦς, noũs] and "intelligence" [διάνοια, diánoia], and the maker of names appears to have had a singular notion about her; and indeed calls her by a still higher title, "divine intelligence" [θεοῦ νόησις, theoũ nóēsis], as though he would say: This is she who has the mind of God [ἁ θεονόα, a theonóa). Perhaps, however, the name Theonoe may mean "she who knows divine things" [τὰ θεῖα νοοῦσα, ta theia noousa] better than others. Nor shall we be far wrong in supposing that the author of it wished to identify this Goddess with moral intelligence [εν έθει νόεσιν, en éthei nóesin], and therefore gave her the name Etheonoe; which, however, either he or his successors have altered into what they thought a nicer form, and called her Athena."

- Plato, Cratylus 407b

Thus, Plato believed that Athena's name was derived from Greek Ἀθεονόα, Atheonóa—which the later Greeks rationalised as from the deity's (θεός, theós) mind (νοῦς, noũs). The second-century AD orator Aelius Aristides attempted to derive natural symbols from the etymological roots of Athena's names to be aether, air, earth, and moon.

Minerva
The name Minerva stems from Proto-Italic *meneswo ('intelligent, understanding'), and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *menos ('thought'). Helmut Rix (1981) and Gerhard Meiser (1998) have proposed the PIE derivative *menes-ueh₂ ('provided with a mind, intelligent') as the transitional form.

Trivia

 * When she leads in battle, Athena was known as "Athena Promachos."
 * Athena is one of the patron deities of Sparta,  where she was called "Athena Poliachos", meaning "Athena Protector of the City."
 * Athena was known as "Athena Parthenos" ("Athena the Virgin"), which was how she was worshiped at the Athenian Parthenon. This would also be the name of her statue that stood there, which eventually becoming the most famous Greek statue of all time.
 * Pallas, one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt, is named after Pallas Athene Parthenos, one of Athena's alternative names.
 * Athena and Hephaestus are the only gods Zeus trusted to wield his thunderbolt.
 * Athena's most important festival was the Panathenaea, which was celebrated annually in Athens.
 * Athena likes reading, well-prepared coffee (mixed with a heavy amount of alcohol), and deep-fried foods.
 * She dislikes dealing with paperwork, perverts, and measuring her height.
 * Athena's Roman form is displayed on the medal of honor - the highest military decoration awarded by the United States Government, much to her dismay.
 * Her image as Minerva is, once again, appeared on the state seal of California, as she was born an adult, and California was never a territory.
 * In Chapter XXX, Hermes jokingly stated that this is why she never travel to California willingly.