minerva

     

Minerva, known also as Pallas Athena in Greek mythology, was the Roman name of Greek godess Athena. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, crafts, and the inventor of music.

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  • This Roman goddess of wisdom is said to have leaped forth from the brain of Jupiter, fully mature & in armor
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew watches an emblem being applied to a California Highway Patrol car.) The symbol of the highway patrol features the Great Seal of California & this Roman war goddess, whose Greek counterpart was Athena
  • Wisdom, spinning & weaving; this goddess could do it all
  • Roman goddess of crafts & war, she was identified with the Greek Athena, but was probably native to Italy
  • Maria Shriver created an award for women named for this Roman goddess of wisdom, seen on California's state seal
  • In Roman myth, she's the goddess of wisdom & of the arts & sciences

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