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• Birth of Athena
• Court of Attica
• Athena, Hephaestus and Erichthonius
• The invention of the flute
• Participation in the Gigantomachy
• Athena and the Trojan horse
• Athena-craftswomen
• Athena-weaver
• Ajax Oilid
• Athena and Ares
• Athena and other deities
• Athena and poultry
• Victims of Athena
• Priestesses and maidens Athens
• Olive as a symbol of Athens
• Festivals
• Phenomena Athens
• Archaic image of the goddess and its evolution
• Athena in philosophy
• In ancient literature
• Famous images Athens

Court of Attica

   Another important mythological story of Athena tells how she got the dominion over the Greek countryside of Attica, whose patron, the capital, called her name, she was considered a historical epoch. In the surviving texts of the early epic story is not mentioned, coherent story about the dispute over ownership of the city (according to even the first city on earth) leads "Mythological library" Pseudo-Apollodorus (III, 14 1).

   According to this myth, Poseidon first came to Attica, struck his trident into the ground on the Acropolis, and created a source of sea water, which appears in the historical time in Erechtheum (according to another legend, he created the horse). Behind him came after Athena, which struck the ground with a spear and brought up the olive tree (olive). According to the decision of the judges, Athena was recognized as the winner, as its present is more useful, the town her name, Poseidon is angry and tried to flood the land of the sea, but Zeus forbade him.

   According to references Kallimaha and Nonna, their judge was Kekrop-snake, also called judges or Cranach, or Erysichthon. According to another legend, tried the twelve Olympian gods led by Zeus, and the witness was Kekrop-snake, or tried one of Zeus.

   Later version of the myth leads Varro. Appear in the city an olive tree, and elsewhere in the water, the king Kekrop sent to Delphi and the oracle command raised the question of the title town to the vote: men to vote for Poseidon, and the women for Athena, and one woman had more. Then Poseidon waves devastated the land, and the Athenian women were subjected to triple penalty: was denied the right to vote, none of the children was not supposed to take her mother's name and no one had called Athenian women.

   The court held on 2 boedromiona (late September), and this day the Athenians withdraw from the calendar. "The Chronicle of Eusebius' dating the emergence of the olive and the process 466 or 483 a year from Abraham (1551 or 1534 BC. E.). S'pore Poseidon and Athena was depicted on the back side of the Parthenon, as presented by Ovid Athena depicts this scene in the tissue in its contest with the Arachne.