Word: athenas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Odysseus was a very Greek hero, "formidable for guile in peace and war," "the great tactician,'' "skilled in all ways of contending," "all craft and gall," admired as much for his divinely inspired chicanery as for his handiwork with spear, bow or tiller. Although favored by Pallas Athena, he was not a superhuman figure but a very mortal man, in his own words as rendered by Fitzgerald...
...Reader Barth recall that the owl is a symbol of Greek Goddess Athena, goddess of wisdom...
...Wall Street Journal remembered, pensively, that a mythological Electra, who dallied with the gods, was dashed to earth by Athena. "Everything she tried turned to tragedy and mourning became all the bearers of her name...
Buddhism was their religion; yet they also found much to love in the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome. They were fascinated by centaurs and Tritons, and they could produce a handsome Athena or Roma, helmet and all. They dutifully gave Buddha's head the magic bump that marked his Buddhahood-though they were likely to disguise it under a mop of hair inspired by Apollo. Buddha himself often appeared draped in a Roman toga, and some of the men could have come straight out of the Roman Senate. But while the artists borrowed, they did not copy...