Example sentences for: athena

How can you use “athena” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There they would be able to worship an ivory-and- gold-covered wooden statue of Athena said to be 12 m (39 ft) high which has long since been lost.

  • He commissioned the Parthenon, Erechtheíon, Temple of Athena Nike, and Propylaia, taking advantage of a new marble quarry on Mount Pentelikon — the marble became known as Pentelic.

  • Here a row of Ionian columns mark the entrance to a rectangular inner sanctum of the new Temple of Athena.

  • In the 20th century, Hollywood added its own slant to the legends, and every school child learns about the gods of the ancient Greek world — of Zeus, Athena, and Apollo.

  • The Acropolis had been a sanctuary to Athena Nike since the fifth century b.c. and following the sacking of the site by the Persians a new smaller temple, or naïskos, was commissioned and designed by Callicrates.


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