Athena TPB

Cover: Paul Renaud Writer: Doug Murray Penciller/Inker: Fabiano Neves, Paul Renaud Format:TPB Page Count: 104 Collects the Athena limited Series into a TPB Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2010  Edition ‏ : ‎  Illustrated Language ‏ : ‎  English Print length ‏ : ‎  104 pages Item Weight ‏ : ‎  9.6 ounces  Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.4 x 0.4 x 10 inches The goddess Athena is reborn into our modern world! Written by Doug Murray and illustrated by Paul Renaud and Fabiano Neves, this collection also features a complete cover gallery. Athena, in Greek mythology is the goddess of wisdom, peace, strategy, handicrafts and reason, shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour. History Athena as the "daughter" of Zeus, born from his head after he swallowed her pregnant mother. She famously wields the thunderbolt and the Aegis, which she and Zeus share exclusively. Athena, an armed warrior goddess, appears in Greek mythology as a helper of many heroes, including Odysseus, Jason, and Heracles. In Classical Greek myths she never consorts with a lover, earning the title Athena Parthenos ("Athena the virgin"), hence the name of her most famous temple, the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of Erechtheus/Erichthonius by the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate that the serpent who accompanied Athena, also called Erichthonius, was born to Gaia, Earth when the rape failed and the semen landed on Gaia, impregnating her, and that after the birth he was given to Athena by Gaia. Though Athena was a war-goddess, she disliked fighting without a purpose and preferred using wisdom to settle predicaments. The goddess would only encourage fighting if it was for a reasonable cause.