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== Athena equivalents ==

Since the Goddess Athena has been equated with Isis by Plutarch I think we should put it in the article. Given that Neith is there another goddess equated with Isis. A side note would love to add other deities equated with Athena similar to Aphrodite with the source as a reference. [[User:Сяра|Сяра]] ([[User talk:Сяра|talk]]) 19:11, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

:Feel free to add any reliably sourced content to the article's body. I assume you're referring to the infobox, though. Any information presented in the infobox (especially equivalencies) should, per [[MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE]], be discussed in the article's body, be accompanied there by unambiguous sourcing, and be significant enough to Athena to be considered a {{tq|key fact}} about her. Regarding Aphrodite's article, those equivalencies have been removed from her infobox because they aren't discussed in the article. &ndash; [[User:Michael Aurel|Michael Aurel]] ([[User talk:Michael Aurel|talk]]) 01:33, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
::Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride from J. Gwyn Griffiths I think could be used as a source [[User:Сяра|Сяра]] ([[User talk:Сяра|talk]]) 19:30, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
:::Assuming you're referring to ''[[Moralia]]'' 376 A, that only indicates that the Egyptians identified the two (or that they referred to Isis as "Athena"), not that the Greeks did. &ndash; [[User:Michael Aurel|Michael Aurel]] ([[User talk:Michael Aurel|talk]]) 01:00, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
::::It seems reasonable to see how the Egyptians saw this foreign goddess as equivalent to their own  [[User:Сяра|Сяра]] ([[User talk:Сяра|talk]]) 09:26, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
:::::Why? She's a Greek goddess. Remember we're talking about the infobox (not just the article's prose), which should be reserved for information that is especially important to the subject of the article. This is also the definition at ''[[interpretatio graeca]]'': {{tq|gods of various cultures whom the ''Greeks or Romans'' identified [...] with their own gods and heroes}} (emphasis mine). Besides, Athena was identified with numerous goddesses from the Near East, Egypt, and Anatolia; what makes the identification with Isis especially significant here? &ndash; [[User:Michael Aurel|Michael Aurel]] ([[User talk:Michael Aurel|talk]]) 13:50, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

== Tritonis ==

Under Tritonegeia is someone able to add a reference to Book 2 Line 226 of the Aeneid where the twin serpents that attacked Laocoon retreat to the "citadel of savage Tritonis" Whenever I try to add this the browser crashes [[User:Sulpicia Rufae|Sulpicia Rufae]] ([[User talk:Sulpicia Rufae|talk]]) 21:50, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

== Athena's attemped rebellion against Zeus ==

In the Illiad, Athena, Hera and Poseidon, after some hesitation, went against Zeus' orders during the Trojan War, breaking the rule of not interfering with mortal affairs. It is revealed that the rebelled against Zeus before with the purpose of overthrowing him in the past, which is very interesting in Athena's side because despite she is considered his favorite child, there are many myths in which he mistreated (albeit indirectly) like how she and her mother Metis (who raised her and made sure she was armed before she escaped, by the way) were swallowed, and how he was the reason Pallas died. Thus, I think her attempted rebellion should be added to her page. [[User:Alexandra Guardián Oporto|Alexandra Guardián Oporto]] ([[User talk:Alexandra Guardián Oporto|talk]]) 17:28, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

== Athena & Medusa ==

I would implore the site to allow my previous edit to go through so I mean to do it again, such it is a '''''badly needed''''' correction (the mess with this whole "Ovidian controversy", as I call it); indeed, Ovid in his ''Metamorphoses'' does NOT tell that Medusa was a priestess sworn to Athena such she was inside one of the goddess' temples that Poseidon attacked her therein, and he also sees Perseus speak of only Medusa being transfigured - I would imagine the #Official Wikipedia site would do better, please. [[User:Chrisangelo23|Chrisangelo23]] ([[User talk:Chrisangelo23|talk]]) 14:28, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

:You're right; the Metamporphoses doesn't say Medusa was a priestess of Athena. The claim that she was a priestess of Athena was inserted way back in 2011[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athena&diff=prev&oldid=431427424] and it's a shame it wasn't picked up. The currently cited Seelig 2002 (a psychoanalytic study of the story of Medusa and Athena) doesn't mention her being a priestess either; perhaps that citation was added to support something else. Sadly, your edit came between some other edits that introduced other problems and were reverted all together, losing your work in the process. I'll edit the article myself rather than reinstate your edit, as yours did have some errors, and I hope we can be a little briefer and repeat less. [[User:NebY|NebY]] ([[User talk:NebY|talk]]) 16:09, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
:As NebY says, I inadvertently undid your changes in this edit, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Athena&diff=prev&oldid=1283861139] while reversing a series of recent changes (by another editor) which introduced problems. Sorry about that; your point is of course correct. &ndash; [[User:Michael Aurel|Michael Aurel]] ([[User talk:Michael Aurel|talk]]) 00:12, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
::Your response is most appreciated, Aurel, thank you and NebY for clarifying. [[User:Chrisangelo23|Chrisangelo23]] ([[User talk:Chrisangelo23|talk]]) 20:29, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

== Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2025 ==

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Around the segment displaying how Athena may have been born, the word "otherthrow" was misspelled as "otherthow". [[User:CMDRJacksonXJ|CMDRJacksonXJ]] ([[User talk:CMDRJacksonXJ|talk]]) 01:42, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

:Fixed. &ndash; [[User:Michael Aurel|Michael Aurel]] ([[User talk:Michael Aurel|talk]]) 01:58, 12 May 2025 (UTC)