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Updated: October 21, 2026
If one tries to imagine what Athena, the War-Goddess worshipped by the Athenian mob, was like what a mixture of bad national passions, of superstition and statecraft, of slip-shod unimaginative idealisation one may partly understand why Euripides made her so evil.
The cult of the old war-goddess Bellona maintained itself, but she never attained the highest rank; she is not the equal of Mars, with whom in the later constructions she was brought into connection. In the Hellenizing period he was identified with Ares.