Chapter 14 MINERVA-NIOBE

MINERVA

Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter. She was said to have leaped forth from his brain, mature, and in complete armor. She presided over the useful and ornamental arts, both those of men-such as agriculture and navigation-and those of women,-spinning, weaving, and needlework. She was also a warlike divinity; but it