Athena (disambiguation)
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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:
Athena
In Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
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:
Companies
- Athena (company)Athena (company)is a Japanese video game developer, founded in July 1987.-Games:*Biometal *Blockids *Castle of Dragon *Championship Bowling *Daioh *De-Block...
, a Japanese video game company - Athena EizouAthena Eizouis an early pioneering Japanese adult video production company. They have offices in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan.-Company information:Athena Eizou was founded December 21, 1981 by pink film director Tadashi Yoyogi and Hikaru Kitoh...
, a Japanese adult video company - Athena (retailer)Athena (retailer)Athena is a British art retailer, and was formerly a large retail chain, famous for its distinctive posters.-History:Athena's first shop was opened by Ole Christensen in Hampstead in July 1964, and then bought into E&O PLC, by Chairman, Douglas H. Bayle...
, a British art retailer famous for its posters - Athena TechnologiesAthena TechnologiesAthena Technologies was a developer and manufacturer of control and navigation solutions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Ground Vehicles . In April 2008, Athena was purchased by Rockwell Collins, Inc. for $107 million US dollars....
, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles
In music
- Athena (band)Athena (band)Athena is a ska punk band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its current line-up is composed of Hakan Özoğuz , Gökhan Özoğuz, Umut Arabacı , Emre Ataker and Alican Tezer .- Band history :...
, a Turkish ska punk band - "Athena" (song)Athena (song)"Athena" is a song written by Pete Townshend and recorded by The Who. It appears as the first track on the group's tenth studio album It's Hard, released in 1982. It was released as the first single from that album, achieving moderate chart success at #28 on the US Billboard Hot 100, but received...
, the first track on The Who's 1982 studio album, It's Hard - "Athena", a song by Tiësto from the album Parade of the AthletesParade of the Athletes-Credits:* Mastered By: Barney Broomer for Sonic One* Written By, Composed By, Producer, Mixed By: Tiësto* Additional Producer: D.J. Waakop Reyers** "Breda 8pm" DJ Montana's edit of "Dallas 4PM" from Tiësto's debut album "In My Memory"....
In film
- Athena (film)Athena (film)Athena is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Norma Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
, a 1954 MGM musical film starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone and Louis Calhern
In television
- Lieutenant AthenaLieutenant AthenaLieutenant Athena is a fictional character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, which ran on ABC from 1978 to 1979. The character was portrayed by Maren Jensen.-Character history:...
, 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 WarAthena: Goddess of WarAthena: Goddess of War is a South Korean espionage television drama series broadcast by SBS in 2010 and a spin-off of 2009's Iris...
, a 2010 South Korean television drama series about espionage and terrorism.
In comics
- Athena (Marvel Comics)Athena (Marvel Comics)Athena is a fictional deity in the Marvel Comics Universe based on the Greek Goddess of the same name. Athena first appeared in the pages of Thor #164, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby.-Publication history:...
, a Marvel Comics character and member of the Olympian Gods - ThenaThenaThena is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. She is a member of the Eternals.- Fictional character biography :Thena was born in the city of Olympia in ancient Greece, and is thus one of the Eternals of Olympia...
, another Marvel Comics character who has gone by the name Athena, a member of the Eternals - Athena (Saint Seiya)Athena (Saint Seiya)The Greek goddess is one of the main characters in the Saint Seiya series, a manga authored by Masami Kurumada, which was later adapted to anime and originated three other spin-off manga.Kurumada created her character based on the Greek goddess of the same name...
, a character based on the goddess in the manga/anime Saint Seiya - Tennousu Athena, a character in the managa/anime Hayate the Combat ButlerHayate the Combat Butleris a Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Kenjiro Hata, about a boy who starts a new job as a butler and the events he experiences with his employer. Shogakukan have released 29 volumes in Japan. The English edition of the series has been licensed by Viz Media for distribution in North...
and the eponymous protagonist's first true love
In computer games
- Athena (arcade game)Athena (video game)is a platform arcade game, produced and published in 1986 by SNK. It was later ported to the NES, developed by Micronics. The NES version was the only one released in North America. Conversions were done also for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1987 by Ocean Software under their...
, a 1986 arcade game made by SNK, whose main character is "Princess Athena"- Athena: Full ThrottleAthena: Full Throttleis a platform mobile game, produced and published in 2006 by SNK Playmore for the i-mode on FOMA90x platform, as a real sequel of the original Athena video game.-Plot:...
, a 2006 sequel to the arcade game - Athena AsamiyaAthena Asamiyais a character originally from the former SNK's video game Psycho Soldier and a descendant of Princess Athena in its Athena. She later appears in The King of Fighters series of fighting games as a female fighter character and has appeared in each of its thirteen editions...
, a character in the video game Psycho Soldier and the The King of Fighters series, described as a descendant of Princess Athena
- Athena: Full Throttle
- Athena, an important character in the Sony Playstation 2 game God of WarGod of War (video game)God of War is an action adventure video game for the PlayStation 2 first released by Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica division in March 2005...
In science and technology
- Project AthenaProject AthenaProject Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use. It was launched in 1983, and research and development ran until June 30, 1991, eight years after it began...
, 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 - XawXawXaw is short for the X Window System Athena widget set, which is a set of widgets to implement simple user interfaces based upon the X Toolkit Intrinsics...
, 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"
- ATHENAAthenaIn Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
, a CERN antimatter research project - ATHENA computerATHENA computerThe Athena Missile Guidance Computer was designed by Seymour Cray at Sperry Rand Corporation. It was designed to guide the silo-launched Titan-1 missile. It cost about $1,800,000 and weighed over 18,000 lbs. It spent most of its operational life in a missile silo.The computer, when declared...
, an early missile guidance computer - Athena (rocket family), a series of light rocket boosters from Lockheed Martin
- Athena IAthena IThe Athena I, known as the Lockheed Launch Vehicle at the time of its first flight and Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle at the time of its second flight, is an American small expendable launch system which was used for four launches between 1995 and 2001, and which is scheduled to return to service...
- Athena IIAthena IIThe Athena II is an American small expendable launch system which was used for three launches between 1998 and 1999, and which is scheduled to return to service in 2012. It is a member of the Athena family of rockets, along with the smaller Athena I...
- Athena I
In other fields
- Mourning AthenaMourning AthenaMourning Athena is a Greek relief sculpture dating circa c. 450 BC. It is one of the first Greek statues to portray human emotion as a significant part of the subject. In this relief, the goddess Athena seems tired and mournful...
, a Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC - Operation ATHENAOperation ATHENAOperation Athena is the Canadian Forces contribution to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.-Overview:Operation Athena was a two phase Canadian Forces mission...
, Canadian Forces contribution to the post-9/11 War in Afghanistan - Aethina tumida, a small hive beetleSmall hive beetleThe small hive beetle is a beekeeping pest.Endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida was first discovered in the United States in 1996 and has now spread to many U.S. states including, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota,...
genus that is parasitic upon the honeybee - Leicester AthenaLeicester AthenaAthena is a conferencing and banqueting venue in the heart of the new cultural quarter of Leicester City Centre, in the United Kingdom.-History:...
, a conferencing and banqueting venue in Leicester, UK - ATHENA (European cultural heritage project)ATHENA (European cultural heritage project)ATHENA is a European Union funded project which aims to provide content to Europeana. It is led by the Italian Ministry of Culture, and "takes its origins from the existing MINERVA network."...
a European Union-funded project on access to cultural heritage networks
Ships
- Athena (yacht)Athena (yacht)Athena is a clipper-bowed 3-masted gaff rigged schooner built by Royal Huisman in 2004 for internet entrepreneur James H. Clark. Clark purchased a 47.4 meter sloop, Hyperion, from Royal Huisman in 1998...
, formerly the largest private sailing yacht in the world - MS AthenaMS AthenaMS Athena is a cruise ship owned and operated by Classic International Cruises. She was built in 1948 as the MS Stockholm by Götaverken in Gothenburg for the Swedish America Line...
former transatlantic liner Stockholm - MS Athina BMS Athina BThe Athina B was a ship that ended up beached to the east of the Palace Pier in the English seaside resort of Brighton on 21 January 1980. It was a temporary tourist attraction, with the Volk's Electric Railway opening up to cash in on the large number of sightseers...
, coaster that beached at Brighton in 1980, sometimes mis-reported as Athena B - FV AthenaFV AthenaAthena is a 7,805 GT factory ship which was built in 1992. In October 2010, she caught fire off the Isles of Scilly. In May 2011 she caught fire while lying at the harbour of Runavík in Skálafjørður, Faroe Islands. It happened at night, and people who lived on the other side of the fjord, where the...
, a supertrawler and factory ship that caught fire in October 2010
See also
- Atena (disambiguation)
- Athene (disambiguation)Athene (disambiguation)Athene is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.Athene may also refer to:*881 Athene, a main belt asteroid*Athene , a genus that contains two to four living species of small owls...
- Athens (disambiguation)Athens (disambiguation)Athens is the capital city of Greece.*Classical Athens, the city in Classical Antiquity*History of AthensAthens may also refer to:* Athens access and identity management, an access and identity management service...
- Athina (disambiguation)Athina (disambiguation)Athina is an alternate spelling for Athena, a goddess in Greek mythology."Athina" can also refer to:* Athina Livanos, daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Livanos...
- Altena (disambiguation)Altena (disambiguation)Altena may refer to:* Altena, Germany* Land van Altena, a historical region and former fiefdom of the Lords of Altena in the Netherlands* Altena , a village in Drenthe, Netherlands...