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| | Headline Muse.com - Athena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Titles: Daughter of Zeus, Queen of Tactics, The Fighter's Queen, Goddess of Weavers, Athene Polias (Guardian of the City), Athene Parthenos (the Virgin), Athene Phatria (Patroness of Athenian Brotherhood), Athene Ergane (Patroness of Craftsmen), Divine Virgin, Divine Mother. |
 | | To the sleeping mortal's eyes, I flash the image of that overreaching Nereid, Thetis, Achilles's mother, at her luckless wedding with the mortal Peleus, a mockery arranged by Zeus, because no god would have her birth a son prophesied with strength beyond his sire's share. |
 | | At that doomed nuptial, the ever-fractious goddess Eris with her golden apple goads young Paris to make the fated choice that ends by sending Achaean sons to war, and sets those sorry days to dawn. |
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