The Foundation Myths of Athena

Everybody has a version of a local hero who is in their stories and helps justify aspects of their contemporary present. Everybody will have a version of that hero who will plug into the wider narratives like some sort of marvel cinematic universe. I think people by the Hellenistic period anyway were more willing to see the flaws than the things that the Athenians were doing but we're just weren't willing to accept a crappy substitute yeah.