she plays an important role in Greek heroic tradition and features heavily in the 7th-century epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. Athena was also one of three virgin goddesses, the other two being ...

Athena was a huge help in Hades, but doesn't show up to offer her Boons in the sequel. There's a story reason given, though, as Hephaestus explains that she's testing weapons and armour.

People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds.