(local/modern) epithets for Athena

winebrightruby:

I mentioned I’ve been working on crafting modern and/or local epithets for the Theoi. I’m basing these somewhat off historical/literary epithets and titles but more off of my personal ideas, relationships, etc. In some cases, I’ve tried to adapt or update traditional epithets; in others, I’ve attached modern concepts or terms – my epithets are intended to be additions to, not replacements of, the traditional epithets, so I haven’t included anything that’s already explicitly covered. These lists are extremely in-progress; I’ll try to remember to update them on here as I update them in my notebook. They’re also in English because I have roughly zero knowledge of Greek. (If anyone gets an itch to translate them all into Greek, um, friggin go for it, but I’m not holding my breath :P)

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I have feelings about Athena, which is fair since she’s (one of) my patron(s), so this list may end up much longer:

• Athena of the libraries
• Athena of research/Athena of the universities
• Athena of City Hall
• Athena of the Riverwalk
• Athena of museums
• Athena of teachers
• Athena Frenchman
• Athena of Hollygrove (for reasons, okay)
• Athena of the levees
• Athena of canals
• Athena of the Coast Guard
• Athena of the National Guard
• Athena of air-conditioning (I CAN’T BELIEVE I ALMOST FORGOT THIS)
• Athena of marble
• Athena of Freret
• Athena of lawyers/of the law
• Athena of the Peristyle (because I said so. shh.)
• Courthouse Athena
• Athena of Charity Hospital
• Athena of the bridges
• Athena of the baton
• Athena of Baton Rouge
• Athena of Tigers (worshiped at LSU ofc)

*A note on the bajillion little festivals and stuff we have: I don’t have “Athena of the French Market, Athena of French Quarter Fest, etc” all listed, because I feel like Athena Erganê covers all of that, and I’m just trying to see what I can add in terms of epithets. Likewise, Athena Hippia for the Fairgrounds is almost certainly a thing, but again, that epithet already exists, so it’s not on the list.