First Main Topic Headline Athena is the daughter of Zeus and ruler of the city of Athens. Zeus had swallowed Metis so she could not give birth. What Zeus didn’t know was that Metis was already pregnant with Athena. All Zeus knew was that if Metis had a boy he would try to overthrow him when he was born. Together Metis and Athena lived inside Zeus for a long time. At first she had just been a headache to Zeus so he called his son Hephaestus and told him to slice his head open with his axe. Athena suddenly emerged from Zeus’s head as it was chopped open fully grown cloaked in armor with the helmet her mother made her. Athena is known to have the owl as a symbol of wisdom and the olive tree. She is also known to have won the city of Athene’s