Erichthonius was the by-product of Hephaestus' attempt to rape this deity. Aeneas took one object associated with this deity to Rome after Odysseus and Diomedes stole it from Troy's citadel. That object was a wooden statue of this deity known as the (*) Palladium. The head of Medusa adorns her shiel
Erichthonius was the by-product of Hephaestus' attempt to rape this deity. Aeneas took one object associated with this deity to Rome after Odysseus and Diomedes stole it from Troy's citadel. That object was a wooden statue of this deity known as the (*) Palladium. The head of Medusa adorns her shield, the aegis. Her gift of an olive grove beat out Poseidon's salt spring in a contest to be patron deity of a certain city. This God was born fully-grown from the head of her father, Zeus. For 10 points, name this Greek goddess of wisdom and war, the patron deity of the eponymous city that built the Parthenon in her honor.
Erichthonius was the by-product of Hephaestus' attempt to rape this deity.
{Athena} [prompt on “Minerva”]