Editing Minerva (section)

==Modern Depictions of Minerva==
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===Societies and governments===
[[File:Army Medal of Honor.jpg|thumb|upright|Minerva as depicted on the United States Army [[Medal of Honor]]]]
* The [[Seal of California]] depicts the Goddess Minerva. Her birth fully-grown parallels California becoming a state without first being a territory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.ca.gov/history/symbols.html|title=California State Symbols|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|website=California State Library|access-date=2017-01-03|archive-date=2019-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105214315/http://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/state-symbols/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The U.S Military [[Medal of Honor]] for the Army, Navy/Marine Corps, and Coast Guard depicts Minerva in the center of it. The Air Force uses the head of the [[Libertas|Statue of Liberty]] instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mohmuseum.org/medal-monday-the-three-medals-of-honor/#:~:text=The%20first%20group%20of%20men,1862%20during%20the%20Civil%20War.|title=Three Medals of Honor|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|website=National Medal of Honor Museum|date=16 July 2018}}</ref>
* The logo of the [[Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science]], an association of German research institutes, depicts the Goddess Minerva.

===Public monuments, and places===
[[File:Frans_Floris_Salomon_Lilian_Print_16529kopie.jpg|alt=|thumb|upright|[[Frans Floris]], Minerva, [[The Phoebus Foundation]]]]

* An [[Statue of Minerva (Madrid)|imposing bronze statue of Minerva]] stands on the rooftop of the [[Círculo de Bellas Artes]], [[Madrid]], Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/viajes/2017-07-01/mejores-azoteas-madrid-tejados-visita-guiada-pangea-bra_1406453/|website=[[El Confidencial]]|title=Visita a las azoteas de Madrid: cuando los tejados se convierten en las mejores terrazas|first1=Inés|last1=Carriazo|first2=Aurora|last2=Vasco Campos|date=July 2017}}</ref>
*Minerva is depicted on [[The Apotheosis of Washington]], a fresco painted by Greek-Italian artist Constantino Brumidi in 1865 and visible through the oculus of the dome in the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
* A statue to Minerva was designed by [[John Charles Felix Rossi]] to adorn the Town Hall of [[Liverpool]], where it has stood since 1799. It remains extant and was restored as part of the 2014 renovations conducted by the city.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cavanagh|first=Terry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05hJrW5yuakC&pg=PA72|title=Public sculpture of Liverpool|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=1997|pages=70–1|isbn=9780853237112}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Elson|first=Peter|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-town-halls-minerva-statue-7931451|title=Liverpool Town Hall's Minerva statue restored to heavenly condition|date=2014-10-14|newspaper=[[Liverpool Echo]]}}</ref>
* A bronze statue of Minerva stands in [[Monument Square (Portland, Maine)]]. "Our Lady of Victories Monument" dedicated in 1891, features a 14-feet-tall bronze figure by [[Franklin Simmons]] atop a granite pedestal with smaller bronze sculptures by [[Richard Morris Hunt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicartportland.org/project/our-lady-of-victories-the-portland-sailors-and-soldiers-monument/|title=Our Lady of Victories (The Portland Sailors and Soldiers Monument)|website=Public Art Portland|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maine.gov/civilwar/monuments/portlandmonument.html|title=Maine Civil War Monuments: Portland (Monument Square)|website=Maine.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524003104/http://www.maine.gov/civilwar/monuments/portlandmonument.html|archive-date=2015-05-24|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
* Minerva is displayed as a cast bronze statue in the [[Minneapolis Central Library]], rendered in 1889 by [[Jakob Fjelde]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hclib.org/about/art/art-list-container/art-list/mc/minerva|title=Minerva|website=Hennepin County Library}}</ref>
* Minerva is displayed as an 11-ft statue in [[Antonin Carlès|Jean-Antonin Carlès]]'s 1895 "James Gordon Bennett Memorial" in New York City's Herald Square.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/herald-square/monuments/1042|title=Herald Square Monuments - James Gordon Bennett Memorial : NYC Parks|website=www.nycgovparks.org}}</ref>
* A statue of Minerva stood at [[Wells College]] and was the focus of annual rituals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wellsipedia.wordpress.com//?s=minerva&search=Go|title=minerva {{!}} Search Results {{!}} Wellsipedia|website=wellsipedia.wordpress.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Citizen|first=Erik Sorensen / Special to The|url=http://auburnpub.com/news/local/wells-college-to-graduate-its-first-males-this-weekend/article_2487504d-7478-5d40-8a25-4266afeb00ca.html|title=Wells College to graduate its first males this weekend|work=Auburn Citizen|access-date=2017-03-09|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=York|first=Michelle|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/education/wells-college-newly-and-uneasily-coed.html|title=Wells College: Newly, and Uneasily, Coed|date=2005-09-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/design/wells-college-minerva-statue.html|title=Students Kissed Her Feet for Good Luck. Now She's Missing Her Head|date=2024-06-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2024-10-07|language=en}}</ref>
* A statue of Minerva stands atop the Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute in [[Ballarat|Ballarat, Victoria, Australia]]. There is also a mosaic tile of Minerva in the foyer of the building as well as a whole theatre name after her, called the 'Minerva Space'.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballaratmi.org.au/|title=Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute - All are welcome to visit for tours, cultural events and exhibitions.|website=Ballarat Mechanics Institute|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-03-09}}</ref>
* A statue of Minerva releasing an owl stands at Manderson Landing Park in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The statue was gifted by the University of Alabama to the community in 2019 as a commemoration of the City of Tuscaloosa's bicentennial year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://buildingbama.ua.edu/projects/bicentennial-sculpture/ |title=Bicentennial Sculpture at Manderson Landing – Building Bama &#124; The University of Alabama |publisher=Buildingbama.ua.edu |date=2019-12-13 |accessdate=2022-08-15}}</ref> Minerva also features on the University of Alabama's seal.

=== Literature ===

She is remembered in ''[[De Mulieribus Claris]]'', a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the [[Florence|Florentine]] author [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], composed in 1361{{endash}}62. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.<ref name="Brown_xi">{{cite book |last=Boccaccio |first=Giovanni |author-link=Giovanni Boccaccio |year=2003 |translator=Virginia Brown |title=Famous Women |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |series=I Tatti Renaissance Library |volume=1 |isbn=0-674-01130-9 |page=xi}}</ref> Poet [[Elizabeth Carter]] is famously portrayed in an outfit inspired by Minerva, and also wrote poems in her honour.