Rights and Responsibilities of Athena

Published Sunday, 20th May, 2018 | By Susan AKA Peacefull

Rights and responsibilities always are companions. The image of Athena I saw in Athens. Fascinating.

The goddess of wisdom, strategy, warfare, skill, justice, and crafts.

Athena is the daughter of Zeus and Metis.
Zeus had fallen in love with Metis and chased her for days, then cornered her near a cliff and wooed her. Years later, the oracle of Gea
had seen this prophecy “You will have two children, the first a girl, the second a boy who is destined to overthrow you.” When Zeus heard that prophecy, he swallowed Metis. Weeks later Zeus had a mind-splitting headache, and ordered Hephaestus to crack his skull open. He followed his orders, and Athena rose, dressed in a full suit of armour.

Athena is first mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey helping the Achaeans win the Trojan war. She is later mentioned helping Heracles in his labors, and Perseus in his beheading of the gorgon Medusa.

The Rights and Responsibilities of Zeus and Athena

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Athena’s rights are broad but follow a strict guideline as she is the goddess of knowledge, and needs to make sure her actions do not add or subtract knowledge from mortals. She has the rights to punish mortals with knowledge disablement, blindness, deafness, and lack of speech. More rights include teaching humans new inventions and determining who will win wars/battles, as shown in the Iliad and Odyssey, she helped craft the trojan horse, which won the battle for the Achaeans.

Athena has many more responsibilities than rights, as she gives mortals knowledge, but has to make sure she doesn’t let them know too much or too little. Her additional responsibilities are;
~Protecting Athens from outside invaders, ~Protecting heroes on their quests as seen in the Odyssey helping Odysseus Hercules’ labors and Perseus’ beheading of Medusa and,
~helping humans with agriculture, as myths say that is was she who invented the plow and rake, the bridle, and how to yoke oxen to plow for mortals.

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