Athena
Character · slug: athena
Also: Tritogeneia, Pallas, Minerva in Ovid, Zeus, Pallas Athena, Minerva
- Birth of the Olympian Generation: Overview (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony (bridge toward Olympian cycle) · Hesiodic catalogue after Zeus’s kingship
- Prometheus: The Trick at Mecone, the Theft of Fire, and His Binding
Cosmogony / Theogony (divine–human settlement) · Hesiodic (merged *Theogony* and *Works and Days* fire narrative; woman-as-price summarized here; jar episode in separate Pandora entry)
- Birth of Athena from Zeus’s Head (Metis Swallowed)
Olympian gods · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (same Metis-swallowing lineage; birth-delivery detail from Apollodorus and related classical notices)
- Abduction of Persephone and Demeter’s Search
Olympian gods · Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
- Athena and Poseidon Contest for Athens
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Attic (Pausanian landmarks)
- Apollo and Marsyas
Olympian gods · Apollodorean / Pausanian (musical contest; flaying); Hellenistic and pictorial enrichment
- Athena and Arachne
Olympian gods / Lydian metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) — fullest contest narrative; Greek notices of Athena as weaving patron thinner
- Erichthonius: Hephaestus, Athena, and the Cecropids
Olympian gods / Attic foundation · Apollodorean / Attic (Hephaestus’s attempt; earth-born child; daughters of Cecrops)
- Hera Suckling Heracles: Aetiology of the Milky Way
Olympian gods / Heracles infancy · Late classical notices (Diodorus; Pausanias; scholia; Hyginus) — aetiology of the galaxy (*galaxias*)
- Athena and Pallas: Childhood Friend and the Aegis
Olympian gods / Athena · Apollodorean / Pausanian (Libyan or Tritonian childhood; accidental killing; aegis from skin)
- Birth of Pan (Homeric Hymn 19)
Olympian gods / rustic — Pan · Homeric Hymn to Pan (19)
- Hecate in Demeter’s Search (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Hecate · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (torch-bearing companion)
- Helios Tells Demeter about Persephone
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone / Helios · Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Helios as all-seeing revealer)
- Dionysus and Ariadne: Marriage on Naxos (Olympian View)
Olympian gods — Dionysus / Ariadne · Hesiodic marriage + Apollodorean / Pausanian Naxos epiphany (olympian bridal focus)
- Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
- Athena Invents the Aulos and Discards It
Olympian gods — Athena / musical aetiology · Classical aetiology (Athena invents and rejects the pipes; Marsyas finds them)
- Poseidon and Medusa in Athena’s Temple
Olympian gods — Poseidon / Athena / Gorgon origin · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Greek temple-violation curse aetiology
- Athena and Medusa: The Beauty Curse (Handbook Variant)
Olympian gods — Athena / Gorgon aetiology · Apollodorean minority notice / handbook beauty-challenge
- Ares and Halirrhothius: Trial on the Areopagus
Olympian gods — Ares / Attic aetiology · Apollodorean / Pausanian Attic (first murder trial; Areopagus named)
- Hermes’ First Sacrifice (Homeric Hymn to Hermes)
Olympian gods — Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — Alpheius sacrifice isolated
- Apollo and Hermes: Friendship and Pact (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Apollo / Hermes · Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4) — reconciliation and gift-exchange isolated
- Mnemosyne, Titaness of Memory
Olympian gods — Titan generation / memory and song · Hesiodic / Orphic-adjacent cult notices
- Styx Allies Zeus: Nike, Kratos, Bia, and Zelos
Olympian gods — divine household / Titanomachy rewards · Hesiodic — Styx’s primacy and her children’s seats beside Zeus
- Persephone Eats the Pomegranate: The Return Bargain
Olympian gods — Demeter / Persephone · Homeric Hymn to Demeter — pomegranate seed and compromise
- Zeus and Maia: Parentage of Hermes
Olympian gods — Zeus’s loves / birth of Hermes · Hesiodic / Homeric Hymn — Maia in the cave of Cyllene
- Hermes Steals Apollo’s Cattle (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Hermes / Apollo · Homeric Hymn to Hermes — cattle-theft isolated from birth and lyre-invention
- Hermes, Herse, and Aglauros (Ovid-Labeled)
Olympian gods — Hermes / Attic Cecropid sisters · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Attic Cecropid jealousy tale; Greek notices of Herse and Aglauros background
- Hermes Invents the Lyre (Homeric Hymn)
Olympian gods — Hermes / music · Homeric Hymn to Hermes — lyre invention isolated
- The Aloadae: Otus and Ephialtes against the Gods
Olympian gods — early threats to Olympus / Poseidon’s line · Homeric / Apollodorean (Aloadae; binding of Ares; assault on heaven)
- Arrival at Athens: Medea’s Poison and Recognition by the Sword
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean (Medea as Aegeus’s wife plots poison; recognition by sword/sandals; Medea flees)