Athena (disambiguation)

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Athena is a name that has stood for figures in mythology and fiction. It has also been used for music and science as well:

Contents 1 Mythology 2 Fiction and entertainment 3 Science and computers 4 Other

[edit] Mythology

• Athena (also called Pallas Athena), the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy and war

[edit] Fiction and entertainment

• Athena (1954) an MGM musical film starring Debbie Reynolds, Jane Powell, and Edmund Purdom
• Athena is a video game made by SNK for the NES video game console
• Athena Asamiya is a fictional character from SNK's King of Fighters game series
• Athena is a Turkish ska-punk band
• Athena is a power metal band from Italy.
• "Athena" is the first track on The Who's final studio album, It's Hard (1982)
• "Athena" is a version of Adagio in G Minor by DJ Tiesto.
• Athena is a recurring character in the original Battlestar Galactica
• Athena is the call sign of a character in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.
• Athena is one of the Lords of Kobol (Gods/Goddesses of the Colonials) in the new Battlestar Galactica.
• Athena is the champion angel in the anime and manga series Angelic Layer
• Pallas Athene is a mobile suit from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam built by Paptmius Scirrocco aboard the Jupitris and piloted by Reccoa Londe.
• Athena is a character in the anime series Noir.

[edit] Science and computers

• "Athena" is the combined name for the MER-A "Spirit" and MER-B "Opportunity" rovers comprising the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
• "Athena" is a campus-wide student computing facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Project Athena was an experiment by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the use of computers in university educational programs.
• ATHENA is the name of the CERN antimatter research project
• Athena is a light rocket booster from Lockheed Martin.
• Athena[1] is a two-way communication channel for Nevow[2] applications.
• Athena is an open-source emulator for Ragnarok Online, allowing users to run a server locally for self use or for public server broadcast use.

[edit] Other

• Athena is a town in Oregon, United States
• "Athena" is a given name for females
• "Athena" is a cruise ship operated by Louis Cruises for Travelscope.
• "Athena", along with "Phoebos", were the mascots for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
• The Mourning Athena is a Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC
• Athina Onassis is the French-Greek granddaughter of the late shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis
• Athena (company), a Japanese video game company.
• Athena (retailer), a British arts and craft retailer
• Athena is a loudspeaker manufacturing company
• Athena is the name of a book-finding software for school libraries.
• Aethena (beetle genus, parasitic upon the honeybee)
• Leicester Athena, a conferencing and banqueting venue in Leicester, UK
• Pallas Athena, the final name of the Flandre, a former French Line ship.
• Athena (faculty), a faculty in Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore.
• Athena Technologies is a Virginia-based company, specializing in fully-integrated navigation and control systems for UAVs.