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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.?
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Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away Is this the whole?

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (1812), Stanza 2, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 45.

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I did not spring, when I first entered Parliament, on November 15,1960, "fully armed, with a mighty shout" from a breach in Lester B. Pearson's skull. like the Pallas Athena from the head of Zeus.

judy lamarsh

— CHAPTER 1, In the beginning, p. 1

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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

camille paglia

— Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990, p. 71)

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