Zeus Gives Birth to Athena

Attic Black-Figure Exaleiptron (tripod), ca. 570–560 BCE by the C Painter depicting the moment when Athena springs fully grown from the head of Zeus. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Attic Black-Figure Exaleiptron (tripod), ca. 570–560 BCE by the C Painter depicting the moment when Athena springs fully grown from the head of Zeus. Hephaistos, on the left, is identifiable by his double-edged axe. On the right, Poseidon is identifiable by his trident.

 
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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