god
Minerva
Pallas
also: Pallas
Warlike Pallas Athena, helper of Hercules; her aegis bears the Gorgon's stone-making face.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §369 Pallas
Pallas Athena (Minerva), daughter of Jupiter and enemy of Troy, who often 'assailed the Dardanian towers.'
- Hercules (Mad) §916 warlike Pallas
Pallas Athena (Minerva), Hercules's helper, her aegis bearing the Gorgon's petrifying face.
- Octavia §558 goddess fierce in arms
Minerva, the warrior goddess; Nero claims Poppaea surpasses her, Venus, and Juno in beauty.
- Phaedra §99 Pallas
Pallas Athena (Minerva), patron of weaving and of Athens; her idle loom marks Phaedra's distraction.