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Athena said something about Hesiod

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    Pandora

    A.H. Smith, however, notes that in Hesiod's account Athena and the Seasons brought wreaths of grass and spring flowers to Pandora, indicating that Hesiod was conscious of Pandora's original "all-giving" function. ... This work has a very in-depth discussion and synthesis of the various theories and speculations about the Pandora story and the jar.
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    Athena

    Graves also states that Hesiod (c. 700 BC) relates that Athena was a parthenogenous daughter of Metis, wisdom or knowledge, a Titan who ruled the fourth day and the planet Mercury. ... Athena is depicted in the obverse of the coin, representing the Austrian Republic.
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    Greek mythology

    Hesiod's Works and Days, a didactic poem about farming life, also includes the myths of Prometheus, Pandora and the Four Ages. ... Hera · Demeter · Aphrodite · Artemis · Athena · Hestia
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    Trojan War

    Some thought they ought to hurl it down from the rocks, others thought they should burn it, while others said they ought to dedicate it to Athena. ...Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 57; Cypria fr. 4.
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    Black Athena

    Bernal places the introduction of the Greek alphabet (unattested before 750 BC) between 1800 and 1400 BC, and the poet Hesiod in the tenth century. ... Bernal has said that he, if not his publisher, always preferred the title African Athena.{Quoted in 'Arethusa' an academic journal} In the TV documentary "Black Athena," (Channel 4 UK) Bernal denies this.
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    Hesiod (name service)

    In computing, the Hesiod name service originated in Project Athena (1983 - 1991). ... The /etc/hesiod.conf file for this setup might look something like:
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    Theogony

    The poet declares that it is he, where we might have expected some king instead, upon whom the Muses have bestowed the two gifts of a scepter and an authoritative voice (Hesiod, Theogony 30-3), which are the visible signs of kingship. ... Zeus, because of the loss of fire, would later punish the men on earth by making a woman with Hephaistos and Athena, Pandora, who, through her good charms and beauty, would bring about all the miseries of diseases and deaths into the world by opening a jar from Zeus, but she closed the jar before Elpis (Hope) was released.
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    Parthenon

    Athena Parthenos ... Aeschylus · Aesop · Aristophanes · Euripides · Herodotus · Hesiod · Homer · Lucian · Menander · Pindar · Plutarch · Polybius · Sappho · Sophocles · Theognis of Megara · Thucydides · Xenophon
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    Prometheus

    Fragmentary evidence indicates that Heracles, as in Hesiod, frees the Titan in the trilogy's second play, Prometheus Unbound. ... Hera · Demeter · Aphrodite · Artemis · Athena · Hestia
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    Class of the Titans

    He enjoys Athena's cooking and is in the habit of cleaning out the fridge. ... Also, in Hesiod's version of the Pandora myth, Hope can possibly be interpreted as an evil as it raises false hopes, so the show's interpretation of her as a cute little girl may not make the most sense in relation to mythology. (1.13: Little Box of Horrors)

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