Athena

Goddess of wisdom, war and crafts, born fully armed from the head of Zeus after he swallowed her mother Metis; "Tritogeneia", virgin "saviour of cities" who took Attica from Poseidon with the olive. In the Iliad she guides Diomedes's spear into Ares and fells the war god herself with a boundary stone; Pausanias describes her gold-and-ivory statue in the Parthenon.