Editing Athena (section)

=== ''Tritogeneia'' ===
In the ''[[Iliad]]'' (4.514), the ''[[Odyssey]]'' (3.378), the ''[[Homeric Hymns]]'', and in [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'', Athena is also given the curious epithet ''Tritogeneia'' (Τριτογένεια), whose significance remains unclear.{{sfn|Graves|1960|page=55}} It could mean various things, including "Triton-born", perhaps indicating that the [[Triton (mythology)|homonymous sea-deity]] was her parent according to some early myths.{{sfn|Graves|1960|page=55}} One myth relates the foster father relationship of this Triton towards the half-orphan Athena, whom he raised alongside his own daughter Pallas.{{sfn|Graves|1960|pages=50–55}} Kerényi suggests that "Tritogeneia did not mean that she came into the world on any particular river or lake, but that she was born of the water itself; for the name Triton seems to be associated with water generally."{{sfn|Kerényi|1951|page=128}}<ref>{{LSJ|*tritoge/neia|Τριτογένεια|shortref}}.</ref> In [[Ovid]]'s ''[[Metamorphoses]]'', Athena is occasionally referred to as "Tritonia".

Another possible meaning may be "triple-born" or "third-born", which may refer to a triad or to her status as the third daughter of Zeus or the fact she was born from Metis, Zeus, and herself; various legends list her as being the first child after Artemis and Apollo, though other legends identify her as Zeus' first child.<ref>Hesiod, ''Theogony'' II, 886–900.</ref> Several scholars have suggested a connection to the [[Rigveda|Rigvedic]] god [[Trita]],{{sfn|Janda|2005|page=289-298}} who was sometimes grouped in a body of three mythological poets.{{sfn|Janda|2005|page=289-298}} Michael Janda has connected the myth of Trita to the scene in the ''[[Iliad]]'' in which the "three brothers" Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades divide the world between them, receiving the "broad sky", the sea, and the underworld respectively.{{sfn|Janda|2005|page=293}}<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' XV, 187–195.</ref> Janda further connects the myth of Athena being born of the head (i.&nbsp;e. the uppermost part) of Zeus, understanding ''Trito-'' (which perhaps originally meant "the third") as another word for "the sky".{{sfn|Janda|2005|page=293}} In Janda's analysis of Indo-European mythology, this heavenly sphere is also associated with the mythological body of water surrounding the inhabited world (''cfr.'' Triton's mother, [[Amphitrite]], queen of [[Poseidon]]).{{sfn|Janda|2005|page=293}}

Yet another possible meaning is mentioned in [[Diogenes Laertius]]' biography of [[Democritus]], that Athena was called "Tritogeneia" because three things, on which all mortal life depends, come from her.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, BOOK IX, Chapter 7. DEMOCRITUS(? 460-357 B.C.) |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D7}}</ref>