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...ir was a dwarf gifted with a powerful arm and fearless soul. He wore the [[Aegis]] helmet and guarded his father's house of glittering gold and flashing gem

...t of her goat, killed and skinned by the grown Zeus, became the protective aegis in some traditions, a vivid enough metaphor for the transfer of power to th

His breastplate was the aegis, his bird the eagle, his tree the oak. Zeus presided over the gods on Mount ...other attributes as well as lightning were the scepter, the eagle and his aegis (this was the goat-skin of Amaltheia.

...r Cetus. He then gave the head to Athena who fixed it in the middle of her Aegis or impenetrable shield and used it during the Troyan war. The Medusa shield

...rgon, whose head is represented in the Iliad as fixed in the centre of the aegis of [[Zeus]]: ...d monster, the Gorgon, dread and awful, a portent of Zeus that beareth the aegis."(5.735ff)