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Aspettando Pegasus (e il suo Settimo Senso)

Athena (Attic: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη, Athḗnē; Doric: Ἀσάνα, Asána; Latin: Minerva) is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour.

 

In Greek mythology Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa), "guardian, protectress, queen". Her name probably derived from the feminine present participle of medein, a sea nymph, was one of three gorgon sisters, and the most beautiful. She was courted by Poseidon, and made love to him in a temple of Athena. Furious, Athena transformed Medusa into a monstrous chthonic beast with snakes instead of hair, whose frightening face could turn onlookers to stone. She was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until giving it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.

 

Minerva Armata, autore Francesco Messina, Pavia

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