She longed for conflict and the din of war. Athena, child of Zeus who bears the aegis, 960 slipped off her silky-soft embroidered dress, which she had made herself with her own hands, and dropped it on the threshold where she stood, inside the doorway of her father’s house. She changed into the tunic worn by Zeus, the god who marshals clouds, and armed herself with weapons fit for war, the source of tears. She slung the tasseled aegis round her shoulders— the dreadful aegis, bordered all around 740 with Terror, and on it were Conflict, Courage, 970 and chilling Flight.
