Minerva
c. 500 BCE – 400 CEattested
Rome
- Roman
Goddess of craft, strategy and the trades, honoured by guilds of weavers and doctors as much as by generals. Rome inherited her from the Etruscans and then insisted she had always been theirs.
Known for
- craft as intelligence
- patron of guilds
- the owl
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.