Athena (disambiguation)

Athena is a goddess of wisdom, strategy and war in Greek mythology. It is also a feminine given name, after the goddess.

Athena can also refer to:

In entertainment

* "Athena", a song by DJ Tiësto from his album Parade of the Athletes
* "Athena" (film), a 1954 MGM musical film starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone and Louis Calhern
* Escape to Athena, a 1979 adventure war film
* "Athena" (video game), a video game made by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System
** Princess Athena, a character from this game, also appeared in the "SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom" and "Neo Geo Battle Coliseum" fighting games
** Athena Asamiya, a character in "Psycho Soldier" and the "The King of Fighters" series, based on "Princess Athena".
* Athena (band), a Turkish ska punk band
* "Athena" (song), the first track on The Who's 1982 studio album, "It's Hard"
* Athena (Battlestar Galactica), several characters in the "Battlestar Galactica" franchise
* Athena, a fictional character in "Stargate SG-1"
* Athena (company), a Japanese video game company
* "Pallas Athena", a track from David Bowie's 1993 album "Black Tie White Noise" and a single in 1997
* God of War, a game created by Sony Computer Entertainment America for the Playstation 2. Athena is an important character in this game.
* "Athena", the goddess who leads the sanctuary as Saori Kido in Saint Seiya.

In science and technology

* Xaw - X Window System's Athena widget set
*"Athena", the combined name for the MER-A "Spirit" and MER-B "Opportunity" rovers comprising the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
* Project Athena, an experiment by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the use of computers in university educational programs.
* ATHENA, a CERN antimatter research project.
* ATHENA computer, an early missile guidance computer.
* Athena Environmental Sciences, Inc., a Baltimore biotechnology developer and manufacturer.
* Athena, a loudspeaker manufacturing company.
* Athena, book finding and sorting software for libraries.
* Athena (rocket), a light rocket booster from Lockheed Martin.
* Athena Technologies, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for UAVs.

In other fields

* Small hive beetle ("Aethina tumida"), a beetle genus that is parasitic upon the honeybee
* "Mourning Athena", a Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC
* Athina Onassis de Miranda, the French-Greek granddaughter of the late shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis
* Athena, a British arts and craft retailer
* Leicester Athena, a conferencing and banqueting venue in Leicester, UK.
* "Flandre", a former ship of the French Line rechristened the "Pallas Athena" as its final name
* Athena, Oregon, a town in northern Oregon.
* Athena Wissenschaftsmarketing, a full-service agency for the academic market.
* Athena (owl), pet of Florence Nightingale
* Athena (yacht), the largest private sailing yacht in the world.
* MS Athena former transatlantic liner "Stockholm".
* MS Athina B, coaster that beached at Brighton in 1980, sometimes mis-reported as "Athena B".

ee also

* Altena (disambiguation)
* Athene (disambiguation)

References