Athena Rose: A Short Story

About two months into freshman year I began to realize she or anyone else would ignore me or keep it conversation short. To this day, I still do not know what I did for this to happen. As far as I knew we were on good terms and had made up an alone time ago. I confronted them with what was going on and how I was seeing it. Their responses show a little sympathy. My friendships were going downhill fast and the only person who I had was Nathan, to lean on. During these few months, I felt so alone and unworthy. I came home crying every day and ate a lot more which caused me to gain weight. Online I saw my name appear for the most hated and many hateful tweets referring to myself. I did not want to go to school or see anyone; except for Nathan. I resorted to cutting myself on the leg where no one would see it. I did not want to live and cutting makes me feel like I was alive. I eventually got a dog who i named Poe and for a while he was one of the only reasons i had a reason to live. I began to reconnect to old friends in seventh grade. The group of the five of us held me somewhat together for a while, but truly Nathan held me together. We became so close from hanging out everyday and doing everything together. They even got our poe’s brother and their own pet. He was my only best friend, but i wanted things to change. There was nothing i could so to change the place i was in but i NEEDED

Her bubbly attitude and determination to make me open up grew on me until I developed a sort of affection for her. We went everywhere together, but with the cold of the winter came the icy resentment I felt whenever she came to school obviously too drugged up to even concentrate. My fear that she would overdose or hurt herself was reminiscent of that which I experienced with my own father. I knew that as time passed my options were increasingly limitted, she wouldn't listen to my advise, she wouldn't come see me everyday anymore, and she found a boyfriend who could supply her with all of her "needs." Soon she almost mirrored my father and I did what I should have always done, I cut her off for good. Like for my father I never really gave up hope that she would come to her senses and get her life together, but she didn't want to change and I didn't want to be around her anymore. I had been surprised by how quickly I had become friends with her and I frankly thought that we could be friends for a long time. However, I realized that while she was changing into what she wanted to be I had to stand my ground and continue to become who I wanted to be, which meant I had to cut her off. Among all thoughts of this experience, one concept will always resonate in my mind which is that while SJ will be dismissed as a young girl who just seemed to be misguided, I will always be hyper analyzed as a product of my parents' own misguided ways. The

At first, things were excellent. She stopped the drugs and she was getting good grades in school. As time went on, disagreements led to arguments and we went our separate ways. I have seen her a couple times since we went our separate ways, and every single time I see her I feel some pain and some disappointment. She has gone back to her old ways and I am more disappointed in myself than I am in her. I heard her story, but failed to understand her.

She picked my brothers and I up from school. It was cold, it was rainy. She ignored every question we asked the entire way there. We got to a big building where when we entered,

Athena is the goddess of war, wisdom, craft and heroism, she is also known as the patron god of Athens. Athena is considered a major goddess, and thus she plays a major role throughout mythology. Her power has clearly been shown throughout multiple different readings we have done in class but especially in, Homer’s Odyssey and Aeschylus’ Eumenides.

“Nah, you know, Josh, I’m not all that into just staying here.” She gave the impression that she wanted to go.

Artemis was a strong, independent, and fierce figure in the Ancient Greek and Roman time period. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto. She’s the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Greek goddess of the moon and hunting. She was also known as the protector of nature and hunt. Artemis appears in many different myths throughout Greek mythology. She also played a huge role throughout the Trojan War. Her most well known sign is the crest moon. Artemis was an adventurous and powerful goddess.

My chosen topic is the Greek Olympian goddess Athena. Athena was depicted as a tall and slim woman that has blueish-green eyes. She wore a suit of armor and golden helmet. Her symbols were the spear, the distaff, and the aegis. The aegis was a shield made of goatskin. Athena’s tree was the olive tree and her sacred minimal was the owl. She was also the symbol of wisdom. She was the goddess of crafts and the domestic arts and she also was the goddess of war. She was first the great goddess in the form of a bird. Later on she became known as the goddess of wisdom. Athena had no children, she was a virgin goddess.

Athena Goddess of War, Crafts, and Wisdom Athena is the goddess of WAR, Crafts, and WISDOM. Athena is not like the god of war Ares, Athena was not known for her bullying behavior. Athena was also associated with domestic crafts. She is credited with the invention of spinning,weaving the plough and rake.

According to the article titled “Athena” published in Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, Athena is the goddess of wisdom, war and the crafts. Although the derivation is unknown, the name Athena, similar to the city Athens, is considered a part of the non-Greek language. She was also referred to as Pallas Athene, which originated from her childhood friend who she unintentionally slain while acting a mock battle (Sacks). Characteristics As stated in the article titled “Athena” composed in Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology, Athena arose fully grown wearing body armor and a helmet.

The Birth of Athena represents one of the most stunning births of Olympian deities, being immortalized on countless pottery objects. Athena’s status of goddess protector of Athens certainly provides an explanation for the numerous vases dedicated to her. The Yale amphora is not an exception. This Group E black-figure amphora is among the works of the greatest black-figure vase painter, Exekias, and its two panels vividly tell the story of Athena’s birth. While divine births are spectacular ipso facto, the birth of the goddess of wisdom is remarkable in that she emerged from the head of Zeus. Unlike Dionysus’s birth from the thigh of Zeus, which lead to the death of Semele, a mortal woman, Athena’s unusual birth came as a result of the swallowing of

"Sorry!" I laughed. "We left the day school ended. I didn't have time for a window note. By the way, are you still dating—"

On the Acropolis of Athens, there are a large number of votive images dedicated to Athena the city goddess in various medium, including marble, terracotta, bronze, relief and vase painting. Among these votive images of Athena, most of them are represented in a standing pose, either frontally facing the viewers or showing her profile (e.g. the bronze Athena Promachos (figure 1)); some of them are captured in the middle of an action (e.g. Athena in Gigantomachy on the pediment of the Parthenon (fg. 2)). However, the so-called Endoios Athena is a statue of Athena represented in a seated position. Although the seated position is not rare in reliefs, such as Athena on the East frieze (fg. 3) and on the metopes of the Parthenon (fg. 3), the

Around the age of 10, we started getting very involved with school sports. She lived in Byrdstown and found her gift which was cheering, of course mine was Basketball. As time went on, we only got to see each other at basketball games and special occasions. But, we always knew that we would be best friends forever.

“I guess it was because I did not try and I was focusing on things that were less important, but seeing you today made me realize what is important, and I will have my last chance in September.” To be honest I was not to sure of myself, I was not sure if that was true or if I was just telling myself that. I guess I just don’t really have the desire to devote my life to school, but I didn’t tell Phoebe that I just thought that, I mean I guess like a soliloquy.