Minerva

Roman goddess of wisdom, crafts and war, daughter of Jupiter, identified with the Greek Athena; also called Pallas and Tritonia by the Latin poets. Ovid gives her the weaving contest with Arachne, the basket of Erichthonius, the Cave of Envy and the punishment of Medusa; Virgil gives her the Palladium whose theft doomed Troy and the Gorgon-shield she wears as Troy falls. Her aegis is forged in Vulcan's cave.