Athene Quotes

“Some Hellenes say that Athene had a father named Pallas, a winged goatish giant, who later tried to outrage her, and whose name she added to her own after stripping him of his skin to make the aegis, and of his wings for her own shoulders; if indeed the aegis was not the skin of Medusa the Gorgon, whom she flayed after Perseus had decapitated her.”
― Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 1

“Athene, the Athenians’ city-goddess, was the parthenogenous daughter of the immortal Metis, Titaness of the fourth day and the planet Mercury who presided over all wisdom, and knowledge.”
― Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 1

“Apollodorus’s account of the fight between Athene and Pallas is a late patriarchal version: he says Athene, born of Zeus and brought up by the River-god Triton, accidentally killed her foster-sister Pallas, the River Triton’s daughter, because Zeus interposed his aegis when Pallas was about to strike Athene, and so distracted her attention. The aegis, however, a magical goat-skin bag containing a serpent and protected by a Gorgon mask, was Athene’s long before Zeus claimed to be her father.”
― Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 1