Athena is in fact the goddess of intelligence, daughter of the god Zeus and of a goddess named Mētis (Hesiod Theogony 886-900); this name Mētis comes from the noun mētis, which means ‘intelligence’, and Athena herself declares that her kleos, ‘glory’, is due to her own mētis, ‘intelligence’ (Odyssey 13.299). As we can see from a primary epithet of Odysseus, polumētis, ‘intelligent in many ways’ (Iliad 1.311, etc.; Odyssey 2.173, etc.), the goddess Athena must have a special relationship with this hero; in fact, this same epithet applies to Athena herself (Homeric Hymn to Athena 2).