When the enemy was reducing his native city to ashes, he withdrew, leaving behind him his wealth, saying, “I carry all that is worthy within myself.” […] These fêtes, established in Lybia, were transferred to Athens, the city to which Minerva had granted the olive tree, and which she had taken under her protection. She was adored at Troy by the title of Pallas, and her statue guarded the city under the name of Palladium. […] To its possession, was attached the safety of the city; and during the Trojan war, Ulysses and Diomedes were commissioned to steal it away. […] God of War, watch over the safety of this city.”

The Homeric gods have all different ranks and offices ; Olympos being in fact regulated on the model of a Grecian city of the heroic ages. […] The Idyll of Theocritus called the Adoniazusæ describes in admirable dramatic style the magnificence with which the feast of Adonis was celebrated in the Græco-Ægyptic city of Alexandria. […] In this last city she was also styled Urania764, and her worship there was eminently Asiatic in character. […] She summoned her son ; and conducting him to the city where Psyche dwelt, showed him the lovely maid, and ordered him to inspire her with a passion for some vile and abject wretch. […] Athena was most honoured in Athens, the city to which she gave name, where the splendid festivals of the Panathenæa were celebrated in her honour.