Athens Greek capital is named after the goddess Athena , identified by Romans with Minerva .
But who was the goddess Athena?
was the goddess of wisdom war and orderly, as opposed to Ares personification of the violent and indiscriminate war, protector of all arts and women's work.
was born from Zeus's head after he had swallowed his first wife Metis , so that might be fulfilled a prediction of Gea to the effect that would have given birth to a child of that wisdom and power that he hurled from the throne Zeus.
in acute migraine Zeus summoned Hephaestus (or Vulcan ) so he smashes his head in two: a young girl came out armed, beautiful blue eyes, was the goddess Athena .
Athena disputed the title of the beautiful among the goddesses along with was and Aphrodite, the known bone of contention, and since it was not favored by the Paris during the Trojan War sided with the Greeks who helped in any ciconstanza. Protected and assisted Ulysses in all its vicissitudes, it was she who asked Zeus the return of 'hero held by Calypso for seven years, promising the' immortality if 'he had married. He had a feud with the sea god Poseidon (identified by the Romans with Neptune), Zeus younger brother, who was to give the name of the capital ' Attica : each of the two gods claim for himself THAT 'honor, because even Poseidon during the Trojan War had sided with the Greeks and fought with them under the walls of Troy , immediately following the defrauded by the king Laomedon after construction of the walls of this city.
the end it was decided that the two would give the city its name who had won the most useful to mortals: Poseidon with a trident made jump shot from the ground the horse, Athena gave birth to the 'olive trees. The gift of the goddess was considered more useful, and the city was called Athens .
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