"Of Pallas Athena, glorious goddess, first I sing, the steelyeyed, resourceful one with implacable heart, the reverend virgin, city-savior, doughty one, Tritogeneia, to whom wise Zeus himself gave birth out of his august head, in battle armor of shining gold: all the immortals watched in awe, as before Zeus the goat-rider she sprang quickly down from his immortal head with a brandish of her sharp javelin. A fearsome tremor went through great Olympus from the power of the Steely-eyed one, the earth resounded terribly round about, and the sea heaved in a confusion of swirling waves. But suddenly the main was held in check, and Hyperion’s splendid son halted his swift-footed steeds for a long time, until the maiden, Pallas Athena, took off the godlike armor from her immortal shoulders, and wise Zeus rejoiced."
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Homer, ', (c. 7th-6th cent. BCE) Hymn 28 Tr: Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives Of Homer (2003) The Loeb Classic Library, pp. 210-211. Note: Greek echephrona may be translated to an ancient expression of equanimity, i.e., "possessing a steady mind" or "self-controlled."
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