even Metis , Athena's mother, worker of righteousness, who was wiser than gods and mortal men. There the goddess (Athena) received that Sc. the aegis. Line 929s is probably spurious, since it disagrees with 929q and contains a suspicious reference to Athens . whereby she excelled in strength all the deathless less ones who dwell in Olympus , she who made the host-scaring weapon of Athena. And with it (Zeus) gave her birth, arrayed in arms of war. And of Amphitrite and the loud-roaring Earth-Shaker was born great, wide-ruling Triton, and he owns the depths of the sea, living with his dear mother and the lord his father in their golden house, an awful god. Also Cytherea bore to Ares the shield-piercer Panic and Fear, terrible gods who drive in disorder the close ranks of men in numbing war, with the help of Ares, sacker of towns; and Harmonia whom high-spirited Cadmus made his wife. And Maia , the daughter of Atlas, bore to Zeus glorious Hermes, the herald of the deathless gods, for she went up into his holy bed. And Semele, daughter of Cadmus was joined with him in love and bore him a splendid son, joyous Dionysus,—a mortal woman an immortal son. And now they both are gods. And Alcmena was joined in love with Zeus who drives the clouds and bore mighty Heracles.