'crow'[1] pronounced [korɔ̌ːnɛː]) is a young woman who attracted the attention of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and was saved by Athena, the goddess of wisdom.

[3][6] The narrative featuring Poseidon seems to have developed as an elaboration of this version, as otherwise it has no starting-point in a historical cult of Athena and the crow.

[8][9] A fragment from the Hellenistic poet Callimachus implies the existence of a story, not surviving, where the crow warned the owl (Nyctimene?)

[10][11] The traveller Pausanias wrote that in Corone, a small town in Messenia in southwestern Peloponnese, a statue of Athena held in her outstretched hand a crow instead of the accustomed owl.

[3][12] John Gower took up the tale for use in his Confessio Amantis, with particular emphasis on her delight in her escape: With feathers of a coaly black, Out of his arms, like bolt from bow, She flew in likeness of a crow: And this, to her, was more delight - To keep her maiden treasure white Beneath a feather cloak of black - Than, pearly-skinned, to lose and lack What never can return again.