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ReviewTheatre
The Underworld at the National Theatre, London — a potent retelling of ancient stories
...Sharon Duncan-Brewster is an athletic Queen Odysseus, shown setting off from Ithaca to fight the Trojans at the urgent prompting of war-goddess Athena, leaving a baby son, Telemachus....
August 30, 2023
FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
Fantasy Dinner Party: The Goddess Athena takes TfL’s commissioner to task
...I’m almost done squeezing him through the window when, in a flurry of harps and golden light, the Goddess Athena lands in my hallway with a smile upon her immortal countenance....
January 21, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
News in-depthGreece
‘Liquid gold’ rush: Greece’s surging olive oil price lures exporters — and thieves
...Legend has it that Athens was so named because when Poseidon and Athena were competing for the favour of the city, the goddess of wisdom’s offering of an olive tree for the Acropolis is said to have triumphed...
December 29, 2023
Visual Arts
An ambitious Mumbai museum project sets Indian history in a world context
...And unlike her ancient sisters, Athena or Minerva, she is not armed for combat....
December 30, 2023
The Weekend Essay
What the world gets wrong about ‘civilisation’
...Athena; al-Biruni, an 11th-century Persian polymath; the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast...
February 3, 2024
ReviewVisual Arts
Alexander the Great’s cultural legacy richly explored in Naples exhibition
...Athena’s emblem of invincibility....
May 11, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Inside Politics
Zahawi may not only be embarrassing for Sunak, but damaging
...It features TFL commissioner Andy Lord (and a very good morning to all our readers over at Transport for London), the goddess Athena and mescaline....
January 23, 2023
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: Bailey’s bind is the consequence of Kwarteng’s unreassurance Premium content
...Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, is now in a bind, like Laocoön, the unfortunate Trojan engulfed by the goddess Athena’s pet boa constrictors in our picture....
October 7, 2022
Anjana Ahuja
Space-based solar power beckons as a new frontier for humanity
...It is an apt analogy given the tale of Arachne, a talented weaver who challenges Athena, the goddess of war and handicrafts, to a contest....
January 27, 2022
InterviewHow to Lead
Pallas’s Natasha Harrison: ‘I felt completely like an outsider going into law’
...Harrison, who grew up in Surrey in a Greek-Irish family of four girls, has named her law firm Pallas after Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare....
May 15, 2022
HTSI
The world’s most wonderful libraries: the readers’ picks
...Abigail Bosanko The Athenaeum Library, Liverpool “Liverpool is blessed with several fine libraries, amongst them The Athenaeum” – which opened on Church Street in 1800, named for Athena, the Greek goddess...
June 22, 2022
Enuma Okoro
The power of a great mentor
...The angels in the background remind me of the role of the goddess Athena in the classical mentoring role....
June 25, 2021
Moira O'Neill
The 12 days of Christmas for canny investors
...On Christmas Day we suggest you find your partridge, a bird considered full of wisdom, being closely associated in Greek mythology with Athena, the goddess of wisdom....
December 23, 2020
FT SeriesWomenswear Spring/Summer 2020 shows
Rihanna raises the bar with her latest Savage x Fenty show
...Athena, and geodes)....
September 11, 2019
Fashion
In Milan, designers are going mad for Medusa
...On the other hand, an Athena, goddess of wisdom and craft, is most likely to be found among men in the world of investment banking or law, while a Hera, goddess of marriage, is the woman whose sole commitment...
April 25, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Jane Fonda, ‘White Christmas’ and Mozart
...In Greek mythology, who did Zeus ask to decide the most beautiful goddess out of Hera, Athena and Aphrodite (above)? Which Royal house succeeded the Stuarts as monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland?...
November 9, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey — pagan persecutions
...Wearing beards and dressed in black, the religious zealots entered the temple and attacked the statue of the goddess Athena. When they were done, “they melted out once again into the desert....
November 18, 2017
Robin Lane Fox
The Greek garden that is a tale of modern regeneration
...Pallas Athena and which refuses to grow in English gardens because of the cool summers and winter damp....
November 22, 2016
Greece debt crisis
Greece’s central bank boss speaks on grappling with debtors
...This is not the case — according to an ancient Greek saying, goddess Athena will help you but you need to move your hands as well!...
December 19, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
My Father, Odysseus, Unicorn Theatre (Weston), London — ‘Playful’
...The other principal delight of Purni Morell’s playful production is Ontroerend Goed alumna Charlotte De Bruyne as the goddess Athena, who in this scene simply sits there smiling, silently but eloquently,...
March 20, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Democracy’, by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa and Annie Di Donna
...The goddess Athena pitches up to try and bring their heads together. She will succeed, but only up to a point....
September 25, 2015
Social Media
‘Unfriended’: a horror movie for the digital age
...The goddess Athena intervenes, realising that the dispensing of justice needs to be institutionalised, not left to individual vengefulness, to family members caught in a ceaseless settling of old scores....
May 1, 2015
Harry EyresHarry Eyres
Triumph of the spiritual
...I would think Athenians gathered to worship their patron goddess especially in times of threat; no doubt with increasing intensity as the long-drawn-out Peloponnesian war began to go badly for the Athenians...
May 2, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Our Ajax, Southwark Playhouse, London – review
...Ajax has killed the animal in a wild frenzy, believing it to be Odysseus, after the goddess Athena scrambled his brain....
November 11, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Make room at the top
...On a whirlwind tour of 10 countries from Iceland to Bhutan by way of China and India, the authors show how the Athena Doctrine (named after the Greek warrior goddess, and used here to mean desirable feminine...
May 3, 2013

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