Athena Quote by Robert Graves

“From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and…

— Charles River Editors

“but most scholars today believe that ancient Greek worship of her is most closely tied to the ancient Phoenician goddess of love Ishtar-Astarte. Again…

— Charles River Editors

“Here Herodotus can be of some help again. “As to the customs of the Persians, I know them to be these. It is not…

— Charles River Editors

“ISIS Like Osiris, Isis was privy to the mysteries of perpetual birth. We know her image: a mother goddess breastfeeding her son Horus, as…

— Eduardo Galeano

“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves…

— Homer

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Gods in The Lost Hero Aeolus The Greek god of the winds. Roman form: Aeolus Aphrodite The Greek goddess of love and beauty. She…

— Rick Riordan

“Sometimes, the youthful Hebe would insist on scattering her father's seed further afield, & to various places, inside & outside Greece, & even in…

— Nicholas Chong

“In the Neolithic period, throughout Europe and the Near East, there appear figurines which represent bird/women, snake/women, and bird/snake/woman hybrids. Since Goddesses with bird…

— Miriam Robbins Dexter

“If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“And it was told that as soon as Poseidon saw the young Goddess, who looked no more than eighteen years of age, by human…

— Nicholas Chong

“the first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans,…

— Kerry Greenwood