The sourced Wikipedia account of Menrva, the Etruscan goddess corresponding to Greek Athena and Roman Minerva, citing Bonfante and Swaddling's "Etruscan Myths" (2006) for a bronze mirrorback tradition, of which several examples survive across museum collections, depicting her bursting fully formed from the head of her father Tinia, an Etruscan adaptation of the Greek birth-of-Athena myth. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a collaboratively edited reference article citing a named scholarly monograph (Bonfante and Swaddling, Etruscan Myths, 2006) for the birth-from-Tinia motif, used here to corroborate the mirror type's subject independently of the British Museum's own catalogue entry for this specific example. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menrva
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Athena directly: "goddess corresponding to Greek Athena and Roman Minerva, citing Bonfante and Swaddling's "Etruscan Myths" (2006) for a bronze mirrorback tradition, of which several examples survive across museum..."
Source Menrva, Wikipedia
This source names Athena directly: "goddess corresponding to Greek Athena and Roman Minerva, citing Bonfante and Swaddling's "Etruscan Myths" (2006) for a bronze mirrorback tradition, of which several examples survive across museum..."
Source Menrva, Wikipedia
This source names Menrva directly: "The sourced Wikipedia account of Menrva, the Etruscan goddess corresponding to Greek Athena and Roman Minerva, citing Bonfante and Swaddling's "Etruscan Myths" (2006) for a bronze mirrorback..."
Source Menrva, Wikipedia
This source names Minerva directly: "to Greek Athena and Roman Minerva, citing Bonfante and Swaddling's "Etruscan Myths" (2006) for a bronze mirrorback tradition, of which several examples survive across museum collections, depicting..."
Source Menrva, Wikipedia
Tinia, Deities This source names Tinia directly: "formed from the head of her father Tinia, an Etruscan adaptation of the Greek birth-of-Athena myth."
Source Menrva, Wikipedia
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 5 well-attested, 5 holds.
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