Metis

relationship

In most Greek traditions, Athena has no mortal mother; she is the daughter of Zeus alone. In Hesiod’s Theogony , Athena is born from Zeus’s head after he swallows her pregna...

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The mother of Athena in the earliest extant Greek tradition is Metis , the Titan goddess of counsel, prudence, and wise counsel. In the Theogony , Metis is both the first wife o...

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