The golden statue ... meter high goddess of victory holds in her right hand an olive branch as a symbol for peace and in her left hand the Palladion, an image of the goddess Athena, who stands ...

It still has its lovely and simple Doric columns, and once there was a huge ivory and gold statue of Athena, the Greek ...

She was the goddess of wisdom and war, but also of crafts and weaving ... His first acts were to erect a wooden statue of Athena and to found the Panathenaia, a festival in honor of the goddess.