Parthenos

How to use Parthenos in a sentence

• Parthenos (Par′thenos) was a name of Juno, and also of Minerva.

  1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described | Edward S. Ellis

• This plant may have had its name from the virgin (Parthenos) goddess Athene, whom the Romans call Minerva.

  Plutarch's Lives, Volume II | Aubrey Stewart & George Long

• Its official title was, so far as is known, never Parthenos.

  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 | Various

• Farnell1173 says that the first sense of Parthenos was not "virgin," but unmarried.

  Folkways | William Graham Sumner

• The principal chamber (cella) within the colonnade contained the colossal statue of Athen Parthenos (see below, Nos. 300-302).

  A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) | A. H. Smith