The Greek goddess of wisdom, military strategy and craftsmen, Athena is likened to Minerva by the Romans. Wise but warlike, she wears a helmet, a lance and a shield. She leads the soldiers into battle under the name Athena Promachos (the one who goes forward). She is the divine advisor to Odysseus in Homer’s poem, “The Odyssey”. As the protector of the city of Athens, the goddess is celebrated during the Panathenaeums, during which her olive wood statue, kept in the temple of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis, was dressed in an embroidered tunic. This Roman copy from the 2nd century AD stands in the ‘Grande Galerie’ of the Louvre.