Who was the Roman counterpart of Athene?
Little owl statue of Athena holding the bird in her hand. The call of a little owl was thought to have heralded the murder of Julius Caesar. The genus name, "Athene", commemorates the goddess, whose original role as a goddess of the night might explain the link to an owl. The species name "noctua" has, in effect, the same meaning, being the Latin name of an owl sacred to Minerva, Athena's Roman counterpart. In 1992, the little owl appeared as a watermark on Jaap Drupsteen’s 100 guilder banknote for the Netherlands. Little owl The little owl ("Athene noctua") is a bird that
HMS Athene HMS Athene HMS "Athene" was a Royal Navy aircraft transport. She was a merchant conversion, requisitioned by the Navy during the Second World War and returned after its end. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the Greek goddess Athene. She was broken up in 1963. She was originally built as the "Clan Brodie", for the Clan Line at the yards of the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company Greenock, Scotland. The Navy requisitioned her and she was launched on 1 October 1940 as the aircraft transport HMS "Athene". "Athene" received a single catapult, and