1842—
L-2 [Letter 386, 21 August 1842, To Samuel G. Ward]
quoted
“Whence came that broad prudence which has made its nest in your brain, unless from Minerva herself?”
L-2 [Letter 386, 21 August 1842, To Samuel G. Ward]
Athena (Minerva)
Folklore & Mythology Figure
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, journals, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Related
- Entities
- Zeus (Jupiter)
- Authors
- William Ellery Channing
Representative documentary evidence
1844—
L-2 [Letter 474, July 1844, To Ralph Waldo Emerson]
quoted
“a Jove, under the masculine obligations of all-sufficinyness, who rubs his forehead in vain to induce the Minerva-bearing headach! Alas! his brain remains tranquil, his fancy daughterless!”
L-2 [Letter 474, July 1844, To Ralph Waldo Emerson]
1844—
L-2 [Letter 481, 1 September 1844, To Sarah Shaw]
quoted
“you addressed me as Minerva and I easily took the pedestal.”
L-2 [Letter 481, 1 September 1844, To Sarah Shaw]
1845—
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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“In Greece, Ceres and Proserpine, significantly termed "the great goddesses," were seen seated, side by side...”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“Miss Fuller had proposed the Grecian Mythology as the subject of the first conversations [...] He saw the oreads, naiads, nereids [...] Prometheus was made the type of Pure Reason; Jupiter, of Will; Juno, the passive side of the same, or Obstinacy; Minerva, Intellectual Power, Practical Reason; Mercury, Executive Power, Understanding; Apollo was Genius, the Sun; Bacchus was Geniality, the Earth's answer.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Talk on art led the way to Greece and the Greeks, whose mythology Margaret was studying afresh.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
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Journal 1833–1842
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“Just imagine Demetrius reading Channing on Bonaparte in the temple of Minerva.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).