Athena (disambiguation)

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

Athena can also refer to:

Places

• Athena, Oregon, a town in northern Oregon

Companies

• Athena (company), a Japanese video game company
• Athena Eizou, a Japanese adult video company
• Athena (retailer), a British art retailer famous for its posters
• Athena Technologies, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles

In music

• Athena (band), a Turkish ska punk band
• "Athena" (song), the first track on The Who's 1982 studio album, It's Hard
• "Athena", a song by Tiësto from the album Parade of the Athletes

In film

• Athena (film), a 1954 MGM musical film starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone and Louis Calhern

In television

• Lieutenant Athena, a character in the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica
  • Sharon "Athena" Agathon, a character in the 2004 re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica, based very loosely on Lieutenant Athena; see Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica)
• Athena, a fictional character in the TV series Stargate SG-1
• Athena: Goddess of War, a 2010 South Korean television drama series about espionage and terrorism.

In comics

• Athena (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character and member of the Olympian Gods
• Thena, another Marvel Comics character who has gone by the name Athena, a member of the Eternals
• Athena (Saint Seiya), a character based on the goddess in the manga/anime Saint Seiya
• Tennousu Athena, a character in the managa/anime Hayate the Combat Butler and the eponymous protagonist's first true love

In computer games

• Athena (arcade game), a 1986 arcade game made by SNK, whose main character is "Princess Athena"
  • Athena: Full Throttle, a 2006 sequel to the arcade game
  • Athena Asamiya, a character in the video game Psycho Soldier and the The King of Fighters series, described as a descendant of Princess Athena
• Athena, an important character in the Sony Playstation 2 game God of War

In science and technology

• Project Athena, a joint project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use
• Xaw, X Window System's Athena widget set
• Athena, an Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer on each of the Mars Exploration Mission rovers, "Spirit" and "Opportunity"
• ATHENA, a CERN antimatter research project
• ATHENA computer, an early missile guidance computer
• Athena (rocket family), a series of light rocket boosters from Lockheed Martin
  • Athena I
  • Athena II
• ATHENA, Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics, is a planned space telescope by ESA.

In other fields

• Mourning Athena, a Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC
• Operation ATHENA, Canadian Forces contribution to the post-9/11 War in Afghanistan
• Aethina tumida, a small hive beetle genus that is parasitic upon the honeybee
• Leicester Athena, a conferencing and banqueting venue in Leicester, UK
• ATHENA (European cultural heritage project) a European Union-funded project on access to cultural heritage networks

Ships

• Athena (yacht), formerly 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
• FV Athena, a supertrawler and factory ship that caught fire in October 2010

See also

• Atena (disambiguation)
• Athene (disambiguation)
• Athens (disambiguation)
• Athina (disambiguation)
• Altena (disambiguation)