Athena’s Parents and Siblings
Athena’s parents were among the most powerful and skilled of the gods. Athena’s mother was Metis, and her father was Zeus. Her siblings include Artemis, Aphrodite, the Muses, the Graces, Ares, Apollo, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Minos, Perseus, and Porus. Athena was Zeus’s favorite child, and she was the daughter of Zeus. She had sprung fully from Zeus’s head, fully grown and clothed in armor. Now, you might think “How did Athena come out of Zeus’s head?” Well, here is the answer to the question. Metis, being the goddess of crafty thought and prudence, she will give birth to a child more powerful than him and overthrow him. Zeus thought “This can’t happen!” Then he tricked Metis into a game of changing shapes. Halfway through playing the game, Metis forgot about her prudence and changed into a fly. Zeus opened his mouth and zip! He swallowed Metis. From then on, Metis guided him in Zeus’s head. It happened that Metis was going to have a child, and she was making armor and making a splendid robe for her child. For a while, Zeus suffered pounding headaches, and Hephaestus, being skilled at the tools, split open his father’s skull. Athena jumped out of Zeus’s head, thunder roared, and the gods stood in awe. There was this one time that made Athena very mad, when she turned one of the weavers Arachne, into a spider after the mortal girl insulted Athena and the Olympian gods. One of Athena’s pupils, Arachne, was