"glaux" IIRC originally meant a kind of owl that was sacred to Athena. So likely "glaukopis" meant something more like "owl-eyed", at least for a while. And Gla

"glaux" IIRC originally meant a kind of owl that was sacred to Athena. So likely "glaukopis" meant something more like "owl-eyed", at least for a while. And Glaukopis is often seen as an epithet given to Athena. Athena being, among other things, the goddess of practical intelligence (as Athena Ergane she was the patron of craftsmen), and visual perception having an important part in that, the metaphor is fitting. No doubt the meaning kept shifting in time.