Victims of Athena
The myth mentions that the earliest victims of Athena have been committed in Rhodes and Athens - Heliades brought them at once, but without fire, but Kekrop - with a burning fire, but later.
In the poems of Homer described two sacrifice to Athena, in addition to a simpler form - her libation of wine. According to VI song "Iliad, Troianka sacrifice, headed by a priestess Theano, bringing her a gift of clothing Sidonians work (VI 88-95, 269-279, 379-380, 384-385), but Athens rejected the sacrifice (VI 293 - 311).
In III song "The Odyssey" describes in detail the sacrifice to the goddess young Nestor unaccustomed to the work of the heifer with gilded horns, which is invisibly present herself Athena. In the Iliad, Nestor recalls how brought Athens to sacrifice a young heifer, and Diomedes promises her a similar sacrifice.
This sacrifice is mentioned several times in other epic texts. In Ovid, Perseus sacrifices Athena heifer before marriage with Andromeda. Nonn, imitating Homer, recounts how he who led Cadmus brings heifer as a sacrifice to Athena Onkaye. In Euripides Athena notes that Heracles had once brought her a worthy "victim Tele. Heracles took the storm Ehaliyu also sacrificed a bull, not knowing the yoke, Athens (in Sophocles' Heracles sacrifice only to Zeus, but not Athens). In the statement of Ovid Achilles sacrificed to Athena heifer, defeating Kikna.
Thereafter, the sacrifice of animals are rare and outside of Greece itself, the most famous ritual Panafiney reminiscent of Homer's description of Trojan offerings. Euripides mentions the manufacturer during the Athens Festival Peplos Athens with scenes titanomachy. The importance of this ritual notes Proclus.
The Persian king Xerxes sacrificed to Athena Ilium 1000 bulls (480 BC. E.). Alexander the Great in Bactria slew of sacrificial animals and Athena Nike. Macedonian king Perseus sacrificed 100 large animals Alkideme Athena (171 BC. E.).
The most common sources of recorded victims Athena Ilium:
During the Peloponnesian War, Spartan general Mindarie offered sacrifice to Athena at Ilion.
In Ilion, Alexander the Great brought a sacrifice to Athena, and dedicated to her own armor, and also chose a panel of lay in the temple. In the battle of the Granicus, this shield was broken in three places. During the storm, the city Mallas Pevkest covered Alexander sacred shield of Athena Ilium, when he was close to death.
Antiochus III offered a sacrifice in Ilion Athens (192 BC. E.).
The commander of the Roman fleet Guy Livius offered sacrifices to Athena at Ilion, and later brought them the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiatique (both - in 190 BC. E.).