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Posted on March 30, 2020April 27, 2020

What’s at stake in ancient representations of Athena?

In the process of rereading Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey, I’ve been puzzling over the nature of the goddess Athena, one of the more intriguing conundrums of ancient Greek mythology.

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