Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Athena The Goddess Of Wisdom Tells Her Story: Through The Eyes Of Gods

Athena The Goddess Of Wisdom Tells Her Story: Through The Eyes Of Gods

James, Michael

Paperback

Series: Through the Eyes of Gods, Book 25

FantasyGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798184368061
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.13
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Wisdom was never soft.

Before mortals carved owls into stone, placed books beneath her symbols, and called her the calm goddess of reason, Athena was born armed from her father's skull. She did not enter the world as a child. She rose fully formed, carrying the silence of a swallowed mother, the fear of a king, and the mind of a goddess who would learn that wisdom can be sharper than any blade.

In this dark, powerful first-person mythological retelling, Athena speaks for herself. She tells of Metis, the mother Zeus consumed to control prophecy. She tells of Olympus, where gods call themselves family while using one another as weapons. She reveals her rivalry with Ares, her contest with Poseidon for Athens, her cold hand in the fall of Troy, and her complicated favor toward heroes like Perseus, Heracles, Diomedes, and Odysseus.

But Athena does not only speak of victory.

She remembers Medusa, whose suffering inside a sacred space became one of her deepest failures. She remembers Arachne, the mortal artist who wove the gods' crimes too beautifully to be forgiven. She remembers Cassandra, the prophetess who spoke truth and was dismissed as madness until Troy burned.

Through the Eyes of Gods: Athena is a haunting, intimate, and uncompromising confession from the goddess of wisdom, war, strategy, cities, and judgment. Across ancient battlefields, fallen temples, proud civilizations, modern institutions, technology, algorithms, politics, and global power, Athena reveals a terrifying truth:

Knowledge is not wisdom.

Strategy is not virtue.

And victory does not prove righteousness.

Also from

James, Michael

View All

Also in

General Fiction

View All