The Roman virgin goddess of wisdom and the arts, identified with the Greek Athena (q. v .); born full-armed from the brain of Jupiter, and representing his thinking, calculating, inventive power, and third in rank to him.
The Roman virgin goddess of wisdom and the arts, identified with the Greek Athena (q. v .); born full-armed from the brain of Jupiter, and representing his thinking, calculating, inventive power, and third in rank to him.
The Nuttall Encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge[1] is a late 19th-century encyclopedia, edited by Rev. James Wood, first published in London in 1900 by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.
WikipediaEditions were recorded for 1920, 1930, 1938 and 1956 and was still being sold in 1966. Editors included G. Elgie Christ and A. L. Hayden for 1930, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson for 1938 and C. M. Prior for 1956.[2]
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