who is minerva?

ok, this is a sign that i am beginning to lose track of my mythology, but who was the goddess minerva?
like, what was she goddess of, wut civilization, and such

 

Minerva was the Greek goddess of wisdom, poetry, music and the arts

 

The ROMAN goddess, actually. The Greek goddess of <everything he just said> was Athena.

 

well, thnx to the two of u, i was just curious cuz i remembered the name but forgot whom it was attached to

 

You're right, of course. I knew it was the Roman goddess, but was trying to think of the Greek goddess she was derived from (most of the Roman gods were state-designated acquisitions of the Greek gods). So I typed Greek in a brain-dead moment.

 

the original [athena] was also the patroness of athens, as if you couldn't tell

her companion/'totem' is the owl...

 

just a question, didn't that owl have a name? I've been trying to remember that for a looong time. But then again, if it did it might have just been from the old Hercules cartoon. The Disney one, with that Michael Bolton song. [hums "Go the Distance"]

 

in the disney flick about young king arthur [sword in the stone], it did... 'archimedes'...

but archimedes was a real greek... a mathemetician and engineer... 'invented' geometry and a slew of machines...