Athena

Isabel Greenberg is an award-winning London-based illustrator, comic artist and writer. She has had three graphic-novels published: The Encyclopedia of Early Earth (Best Book Award at the 2013/14 British Comic Awards), Glass Town and The One Hundred Nights of Hero. She has also illustrated for Bloomsbury The Story of Tutankhamun, Athena: The Story of a Goddess, Gaia: Goddess of Earth and Marie Curie and her Daughters. Isabel has worked with the Guardian, Nobrow Press, the National Trust and the New York Times. In 2011, she won the Observer Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story Prize.Imogen Greenberg is a London-based writer. She has four children’s books published in collaboration with award-winning illustrator Isabel Greenberg. Imogen loves writing history books and myths for children, alongside working in arts and theatre administration.

Both beautiful and irreverent, this mixture of text and comic strip details the goddess’s birth from her father’s head 'dressed in shining armour, ready to do battle in the world', and her career as sponsor of Athens, helper of Perseus and guide of Odysseus