Athena (Roman name:Minerva, English name:Minerva), who is also the guardian deity of Greece's largest police "Athens" that laid the foundation of democracy.
Let's take a closer look at this goddess, one of the 12 gods of Olympus, loved by the Greeks.
The birth of Athena
Athens was born of Zeus and his first wife, Metis, but the way they were born is particularly unusual among the 12 gods of Olympus and of course the gods of Greek mythology.
Zeus's wife has a strong image of Hera, and Zeus's children were mostly created by Zeus's affair, but Athena is different.
One day Zeus hears a prophecy that the god of a man born to Metis will destroy himself.
Speaking of the Zeus family, his grandfather Uranus was defeated by his father Cronus, and Cronus was defeated by Zeus. Afraid of becoming a dance of 3, Zeus swallows his wife, Metis.
Zeus was relieved by this, but he suffered from a severe headache.
And one day, when the headache peaked, Athena was born from Zeus's forehead.
Athena is therefore Zeus's first child. If there was a heritage inheritance problem among the gods, I would have been rubbing it ...
Zeus seems to be very pleased with the birth of Athena.
One theory is that he was not a male god, and the other theory is that he was born from himself, not Metis, and that Athena was not the one who would destroy him anyway.
I think Zeus is a god who smells like a human being.
Athena popular in Greece, Mars popular in Rome
Athena, the child of Zeus and Metis, is the goddess of fighting, but Ares (Mars), the child of Zeus and Hera, is also the god of fighting.
The gods who control the same battle have slightly different roles. Athena is the god of defense, and Ares is the god of attack and long-term aggression.
As you can see from the fact that Athena is the guardian deity of Athens, she is a goddess who is very popular with Greeks, while Ares is not popular in Greece.
There is a difference in democracy between Greece and Rome in this area, and Greeks rarely call it "aggression." The famous Persian War was also a battle to protect Greece from Achaemenid Persia, and when creating a colonial city, there was a tendency to create a city on vacant land without fighting too much with the surrounding peoples.
Rome, on the other hand, likes aggression, as you can see from the later Roman Empire. That's why Mars, also known as Ares, is very popular.
When this happens, Minerva, also known as Athena, seems unpopular, but Minerva is quite popular in Minerva.
She's a goddess of strength and beauty, so she can't be unpopular!
Aegis Shield and Aigis Shield
For me, who likes the Final Fantasy series and the Saga series, the name "Aegis Shield" fits nicely, but in the language it is read as "Aigis".
Furthermore, it seems that "mirror" is closer to the original meaning than "shield".
Originally owned by Zeus, there is a theory that Zeus gave it to Athena and a theory that Zeus lent it to Athena.
Greek mythology does not mean that there is one book called "Greek mythology", but it is a collection of several stories, so the story changes little by little depending on the region. Even in Japan, there are rules unique to each region in the card game "Millionaire".
Then, the shield of Aegis, when Medusa was defeated by the hero Perseus, was put in the shield by Athena and became an invincible shield that can attack and defend.
The name of the Japanese "Aegis ship" is taken from here.
According to folklore, the mirror that Perseus used to defeat Medusa is the "Mirror of Aigis."
It seems that Hephaestus (English name:Balkan), the god of blacksmithing, made it, and there is a theory that it is a shoulder rest or a breastplate rather than a shield, so I do not see the established theory around here.
Well, as a square fan in the heyday, the strongest shield is the "Aegis shield".