Olympic Pantheon

Athena

Roman Name:   Minerva

Other Names and Epithets:    Grey-eyed or gleaming-eyed; Pallas; Parthenos (“virgin”); Tritogeneia (+ water-born?)

Responsibilities:    Wisdom; weaving; war; inventor of olive tree which she gave to her city, Athens

Attributes:    Helmet, shield, spear; aegis

Sacred Site(s):    Athens

Animal:   Owl; snake (sometimes)

Tree:   Olive

Also see Birth of Athena.

And Athena and the Aegis