Iconographic symbols are often associated with or objects

Iconography is a branch of art history which deals with the identification, description, and interpretation of graphical and image contents. It is a pictorial illustration of an object.

Iconographic symbols are often associated with the traditional images, conventional motifs and religious symbolic objects.

Militarism is the answer.

Athena (goddess of wisdom) gave perseus an unlikely tool to defeat medusa that requires brain over brawn that was instrumental in his victory against medusa