Polias

I.e. "the goddess protecting the city," a surname of Athena at Athens, where she was especially worshiped as the protecting divinity of the acropolis.

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References

Sources

  • Arnobius. Adversus Nationes vi, 193.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 27.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.