heart and hand working together, than that was Athena. This makes it easier to understand why the war delty should be a female: in Greek religion, as in medival chivalaric romance, "the unflagging will victory . . . is woman's gift to man"
             (W.F. Otto, The Homeric Gods, pg. Translation by M.Hadas, published by
             M. Hadas, published by Pantheon Books and Thames & Hudson Ltd. [1954]).
             It also sheds light on the fact that the Iliad knows several war gods: Athena, Ares, and Apollo. Apollo on the battlefield is simply the Trojan Athena, but Ares is different; he takes delight in blood and death, as Athena does not. She is here neither more nor less rational side of war than heroism itself.
             Yet elsewhere in the Iliad Athena is indeed the disp
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