The paper is a research paper about Greek Goddesss Athena. It needs to be typed in MLA 2009 formatting and a work cited paper. This research paper doesn’t need be longer than two pages.
Below are questions that needs to be included in the paper.
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Who is your character?
-Athena
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Appearance: What does she look like? What does he typically wear? Is he associated with a particular object or animal?
-A tall, slim woman with bluish-green eyes trickling light, wearing a suit of armor and a golden helmet. Athena’s symbols were the spear, the distaff, the aegis (a shield of goatskin), and her sacred animal was the owl
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What special talents or powers does your character have?
-Superhuman Strength, the inability to age upon reaching adulthood, immunity to terrestrial diseases and harm from conventional means and a regenerative ability that heals wounds rapidly.
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What is the history or background of your character?
-Nine months after Zeus impregnated the Titaness Metis Zeus had a terrible migraine, and Hephaestus split open Zeus head with an axe to relieve pressure. From that wound Athena emerged, fully grown and armed as the goddess of wisdom and war.
-She gave birth while she was a virgin.
-Athena stood alongside Zeus as he forbade Pluto from working on Earth.
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What stories is your character associated with? Why or how is your character important to the plot?
-The weaving contest with Arakhne who was transformed by the goddess into a spider;
The blinding of Teiresias for viewing her naked in the bath;
– The Judgement of Paris in which she competed with Hera and Aphrodite for the prize of the golden apple; the Trojan War where she sided with the Greeks in battle, but attacked their ships with a storm when they failed to punish Oilean Ajax for violating her Trojan shrine.
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Does your character change during the course of the story? If so, how does he change?
-No
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Would you consider your character to be good or evil? In other words does she behave as a protagonist or an antagonist? How so? How can you tell?
-I would consider her as both good and bad. She behaves as both protagonist and antagonist. Her attitude changes daily.
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What do other characters think of her?
-Some respected her.
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Does your character have other names? If so, what are they? Where did they originate?
-Yes. Minerva, Pallas Athena, Athene, Goddess of Wisdom, Goddess of Battle Strategies, Goddess of Weaving.
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What interesting facts have you discovered about your character?
-The way she was birthed and that the underside of the olive tree’s leaf is grey, and when the wind lifts the leaves, it shows Athena’s many “eyes”.


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