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Hello there, I know how they described it. That's because, unfortunately, the Romans at some point prevailed and imposed their own names for the GREEK Gods. Athena didn't 'predate' Minerva. Minerva wasn't a different goddess. Minerva was Athena. The image that we see is Athena. So no matter what they wrote -and it doesn't mean that they really knew what they were doing- the goddess that we see is Greek. That's why Minerva should be in a parenthesis. Onoufrios d (talk) 11:30, 24 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

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