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I have always felt that Athena was the most dangerous olympian, she choose the right side from day one and when the time comes...
she will strike.
I like exploring Athena's perspective. Considered the favoured child and the one most likely to side with Zeus for the simple reason that he is the king and she is his general, he may be wrong but most often than not, she can make him right.
But if you think about it. Her mother, the first queen (a child born of a king and a queen, a wife and a husband, one of the only children of Zeus that was spared Hera's wrath and even freely given her respect because she isn't a bastard), was taken and imprisoned by Zeus in his body together with Athena still in her womb. And then she was sent away to the oceans to be raised by Triton and along Pallas, her sister (a partner no matter the interpretation), who Zeus causes the death of because of the fear of a superficial damage to his pride (Athena who was raised in the ocean and saw the last of it on that day, high up in her pedestal, owl eyes just barely glimpsing the sea that once cared for her).
And then you tell me that Athena the strategist, who unlike Ares has the smarts and the foresight to set aside honour and noble intentions, and cheat and lie and deceive anyone who stands between her and her goal, the patron of politicians and manipulators, who can wear wisdom and glory and make them weapons sharper than her spear if need so, a weaver perhaps in a similar sense as the Fates and against them, is not just waiting for the right time, preparing the right pieces to topple the King's crown and might?