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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Gr. mythology, the goddess of knowledge, arts, sciences, and righteous war; particularly, the tutelary deity of Athens: identified by the Romans with Minerva.
  • noun [NL.] In ornithology, an extensive genus of owls, related to A. noctua of Europe, including small earless species.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Strigidae.

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  • noun a genus of Strigidae
  • noun (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva

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Examples

  • The _Chorus_, in parallel dialogue, explain who they are, and seek to enlist Athene against the matricide; but _Athene_ answers she has only heard one side.

    Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • At a yearly festival of Athene their maidens take their stand in two parties and fight against one another with stones and staves, and they say that in doing so they are fulfilling the rites handed down by their fathers for the divinity who was sprung from that land, whom we call Athene: and those of the maidens who die of the wounds received they call “false-maidens.”

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • You must not imagine that as soon as Helen grasped the idea that everything had a name she at once became mistress of the treasury of the English language, or that "her mental faculties emerged, full armed, from their then living tomb, as Pallas Athene from the head of Zeus," as one of her enthusiastic admirers would have us believe.

    The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

  • At a yearly festival of Athene their maidens take their stand in two parties and fight against one another with stones and staves, and they say that in doing so they are fulfilling the rites handed down by their fathers for the divinity who was sprung from that land, whom we call Athene: and those of the maidens who die of the wounds received they call "false-maidens."

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • You may recognize the name Athene or Chiren80 instead of Boumaaza though.

    Poker News 2010

  • Egyptian tongue Neith, and is asserted by them to be the same whom the Hellenes call Athene; they are great lovers of the Athenians, and say that they are in some way related to them.

    Timaeus 2006

  • A learned ornithologist later gave the Latin name Athene noctua lilith to the Middle Eastern desert race of the Little Owl (pictured in Voous's book on p. 183).

    The Company of Owls Paxton, Robert O. 1989

  • A divinity who so faithfully guarded the best interests of the state, by not only protecting it from the attacks of enemies, but also by developing its chief resources of wealth and prosperity, was worthily chosen as the presiding deity of the state, and in this character as an essentially political goddess she was called Athene-Polias.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • The temples are full of them; and notably the robe of Athene, which is carried up to the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea, is embroidered with them.

    EUTHYPHRO Plato 1906

  • The temples are full of them; and notably the robe of Athene, which is carried up to the Acropolis at the great Panathenaea, is embroidered with them.

    The Dialogues of Plato, Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions, by B. Jowett. Plato 1871

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