🦉 Athene Meter 💙

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The Panathenaic Procession, an annual celebration of Godess Athena's birthday
The Panathenaic Procession: Every year, in order to celebrate Athena's birthday, Athenians celebrated the Panathenaia Festival carrying the ''Peplus''. Image by Greg Ruhl. The Peplus was suspended like a sail from the yards on the mast of the Panathenaic Ship (Schol. on Hom. Il. v. 734), which was an actual ship, very large and beautiful. The marvellous appearance of a ship going through the streets was effected by subterranean machines. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. ii. 1, 5, ).
Goddess Athena
Athena with her best friend Nike in her hand.
'""Of Pallas Athena, guardian of the city, I begin to sing. Dread is she, and with Ares she loves the deeds of war, the sack of cities and the shouting and the battle. It is she who saves the people as they go to war and come back. Hail, goddess, and give us good fortune and happiness!" - Homeric Hymn 11 to Athena (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.)' (Ancient Greece, Sparta & Troy)