CLAS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trojan War, Horse Training, Thrice

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS100
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Deals with protection/order of the state and the sacking of cities. She springs from his head and this is connected with her military abilities, wisdom (strategy), masculine virginity. Zeus always thinks of the outcomes of war and decides the outcome. She was born from no mother so she prefers men over women: attributes. Seen in paintings with her aegis = a goat skin bib hangs down the front and portrayed a military purpose (shield or breastplate) She was given the head of medusa from perseus after she helped him and she put it on her aegis. If she shakes her aegis men tremble in fear. Athena and zeus were the only ones to have an aegis - zeus said he loaned his aegis to athena. Wearing lots of armor panoply: symbols. Owl (wisdom) and olive (civilizing qualities: name. Pallas was athena"s girlfriend when she was younger.