Athena
The Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology, now in course of publication beneath the path of W.H. Roscher, reproduces an antique Gorgon’s head possessing the lips and nose cut off and stretching out its tongue. The later poets and artists, forgetting or disregarding the earlier conception of the ægis, represented it as a breastplate covered with metallic scales and extending from shoulder to shoulder. Homer calls Athena Dioz qug’athr cudisth Tritogeneia – Hesiod offers her the same epithet, which recurs…
