Athena Aglaótimos - Splendidly Honored

Athena Devotional Blog (& also side blog.) Main blog is @owl-eyed--witch

[cityelf]

I hope this email rules you all. I hope this email finds you. I hope this email brings you all, and in the darkness binds you.

[toastnbutter]

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" Have you tried asking Lady Athena, Goddess of wisdom? I'm sure she'd give you a better answer than AI ever will.

[crazycatsiren]

There is no reason for Athena to not be both a warrior and a beauty.

After all, it was she who alongside Aphrodite and Hera believed the golden apple "to the fairest" was for her.

Cult statues that depict a feminine Athena with long flowy haired and wearing a dress with no armor and no weapon have survived to modern day.

Her appeal would be that she is beautiful, intelligent, deadly, and unattainable.

[wrathful-warhound]

Athena Ambulia (counsellor, of counsel)

Athena Oxyderces (sharp-sighted)

Athena the Wise

[oracleofhemerasia-deactivated20]

Pallas Athene, guardian of the city, I begin to sing. Dread is she, and with Ares she loves deeds of war, the sack of cities and the shouting and the battle. It is she who saves the people as they go out to war and come back. Hail, goddess, and give us good fortune with happiness!

[academiaatitsfinest]

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:  Out of a misty dream  Our path emerges for a while, then closes  Within a dream.

— Ernest Dowson

[greek-museums]

[lingering-zephyr]

another summer blooms underneath my skin.

[academic-vampire]

- @academic-vampire

[mando-lore]

Throwback to last year at the Louvre when I saw a little girl sitting on the ground looking up to the statue of the goddess Athena. Probably the most Renaissance-like and powerful picture I ever took. 

[the-mad-maenad]

Mood board for Athena, Goddess of wisdom, war and crafts.

🦉🛡️🧵

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[jenniferlmeyer]

So peaceful

[reikacchan]

don't give up

[mornington-the-crescent]

[melanchol1e-deactivated20250809]

[seaview123]

I think this picture is gorgeous

[gnnosis]

what we owe to each other

[ the good place, 2x13 / the overstory, richard powers / unknown / “don’t carry it all,” the decemberists / thoodleoo ]

[evilios]

People usually draw Athena with barn owls or larger great horned owls, probably because they are more well known in the United States and they are more "intimidating" by their wing span and appearance, but I find it sweet that the "owl of Athena" is the little owl, Athene noctua.

It occurs in Europe, Central Asia, and parts of Africa, making it a more obvious bird for a Mediterranean Goddess. It's also so small you can hold it on your hand/fingers (it's around 8in/22cm in length with a wingspan of 22in/56cm).

Athene noctua is also related to Athena etymologically: γλαυξ (glaux, used to describe the little owl), the word connected to γλαυκός (glaukos, "bright", "light blue", "light grey", "gleaming"), is also connected to the epithet γλαυκῶπις (glaukopis, "of gleaming eyes") that was a constant epithet of Athena. They were probably associated because of the "gleaming" eyes of the little owls. The specific shade of that "gleaming" might also be descriptive of the bluish shine on olives when they're ripe, which would connect to another specific attribute of Athena.