Athena Alalkomeneis

09: Athena Alalkomeneïs

"Homer gives Athena the epithet Alalkomeneïs, which literally means "she who protects" and evokes the warlike goddess of the Palladion. Several cults of Athena under this name existed, but its oldest home was perhaps her ancient sanctuary in the Boiotian town of Alalkomenai. Excavated but never published, it lay in a plain between the towns of Haliartos and Koroneia. According to Strabo (9.2.36), the venerable sanctuary was held in such respect that the city was never ravaged by a hostile army. His account is contradicted by Pausanias (9.33.5-6), who reports that Sulla impiously looted the temple's celebrated ivory statue. With the loss of the sacred image, the sanctuary at last fell into decline, and was overgrown with vegetation by the second century CE. Local legend held that Athena was born or grew to adulthood here; her poetic epithet Tritogeneia (Triton-born) was associated with the river Triton."

Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide by Jennifer Larson.

(I gave Athena a Mycenaean outfit. I also couldn't resist to add the ghost of Pallas from my comic Daddy’s Girl, since I made her a daughter of Alalkomenes in my version.)