The story of Athena’s birth is first retold in Hesiod’s Theogony, a poem about the genealogy of the gods. The Iliad alludes to it, but doesn’t give details — probably because his audience was already familiar with the myth.
After defeating his own father Cronos and taking the power, Zeus married Metis (that is, Wisdom) and she got pregnant. Zeus feared that his own child could overthrow him, and asked Heaven and Earth for advice.
Heaven and Earth told him to swallow the pregnant Metis, in order to avoid the child’s birth. Zeus tricked Metis and somehow managed to swallow her, but this could not prevent her from delivering the child in her womb.
After a while, Athena emerged from Zeus’s forehead. In some retellings of the myth, Zeus had either Prometheus or Hephæstus to cut open his head so that the daughter could come out. She was born wearing weapons.
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The story of Athena’s birth is first retold in Hesiod’s Theogony, a poem about the genealogy of the gods. The Iliad alludes to it, but doesn’t give details — probably because his audience was already familiar with the myth.
After defeating his own father Cronos and taking the power, Zeus married Metis (that is, Wisdom) and she got pregnant. Zeus feared that his own child could overthrow him, and asked Heaven and Earth for advice.
Heaven and Earth told him to swallow the pregnant Metis, in order to avoid the child’s birth. Zeus tricked Metis and somehow managed to swallow her, but this could not prevent her from delivering the child in her womb.
After a while, Athena emerged from Zeus’s forehead. In some retellings of the myth, Zeus had either Prometheus or Hephæstus to cut open his head so that the daughter could come out. She was born wearing weapons.
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