Editing Metis (mythology) (section)

=== Hesiod's account ===
Metis was an [[Oceanids|Oceanid]], one of the 3000 daughters of the [[Titans]] [[Oceanus]] and [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]],<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=232}}</ref> and a sister of the [[River gods (Greek mythology)|river-gods]], which also numbered 3000. Metis gave her cousin [[Zeus]] an emetic potion to cause his father [[Cronus]], the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings - [[Hestia]], [[Demeter]], [[Hera]], [[Hades]] and [[Poseidon]] - their father had swallowed out of fear of being overthrown.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D492 471]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''Bibliotheca'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D1 1.2.1]; Grimal, s.v. Metis.</ref> After Zeus and his siblings won the [[Titanomachy]], the 10-year war among the Titans and the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympians]], he pursued Metis and they got married.<ref>[[Marcel Detienne|M. Detienne]] and [[Jean-Pierre Vernant|J.-P. Vernant]], ''Les Ruses de l'intelligence: la Mètis des Grecs'' (Paris, 1974). {{ISBN|2-08-081036-7}}.</ref><ref name="Brown">Norman O. Brown, "The Birth of [[Athena]]" ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association'' '''83''' (1952), pp. 130–143.</ref> 

Metis was both an indispensable aid and a threat to Zeus.<ref>Brown 1952:133</ref> He lay with her, but immediately feared the consequences, for it had been prophesied by [[Gaia]] and [[Uranus (mythology)|Uranus]] that Metis would bear a daughter who would be wiser than her mother, and then a son more powerful than his father, who would eventually overthrow Zeus and become the king of the cosmos in his place.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'', [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D886 886–900]; Hard, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA77 77]; Caldwell, p. 16; Tripp, s.v. Metis.</ref> In order to forestall these consequences, Zeus tricked Metis into turning herself into a fly and promptly swallowed her.<ref name="Lang 1901 pp. 194, 262-263">{{cite book |last=Lang |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Lang |title=Myth, Ritual and Religion |publisher=Longmans, Green |volume=2 |year=1901 |url={{Google books|GEYA38U040QC|page=263|keywords=metis fly|plainurl=yes}} |access-date=2018-04-10 |pages=194, 262–263 |oclc=13809803}}</ref> However, she was already pregnant with their first and only child, [[Athena]], whom Metis raised in Zeus' mind. It is from this position that Metis continues to give Zeus advice as a ruler.

Once Athena fully grew up, Metis crafted robes, an armor, a shield, and a spear for her daughter, who banged her spear and shield together in order to give her father a terrible headache. Soon, Zeus could not take his headache anymore and had the smith god [[Hephaestus]] - a son of Hera, now his queen - cut his head open to let out whatever was in there on the [[Triton River|river Triton]]'s banks. Athena emerged from Zeus's mind full grown, wearing the armor her mother made for her. She was soon made the goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts.
{{blockquote|But Zeus lay with the fair-cheeked daughter of Ocean and Tethys apart from [[Hera]] ... deceiving Metis although she was full wise. But he seized her with his hands and put her in his belly, for fear that she might bring forth something stronger than his thunderbolt: therefore did Zeus, who sits on high and dwells in the aether, swallow her down suddenly. But she straightway conceived Pallas Athena: and the father of men and gods gave her birth by way of his head on the banks of the river Trito. And she remained hidden beneath the inward parts of Zeus, even Metis, Athena's mother, worker of righteousness, who was wiser than gods and mortal men.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D901 929]</ref>}}