Athena (disambiguation)

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

Athena or Athene can also refer to:

In entertainment:

• Athena (film), a 1954 MGM musical film starring Debbie Reynolds, Jane Powell, and Edmund Purdom.
• Athena (video game), a video game made by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• Athena (band), a Turkish ska punk band
• "Athena", the first track on The Who's 1982 studio album, It's Hard
• Athena (Battlestar Galactica), several characters in the Battlestar Galactica franchise
• Athena (company), a Japanese video game company
• Athena Asamiya, a character in the King of Fighters series

In technology:

• "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 (rocket), a light rocket booster from Lockheed Martin.
• Athena Technologies, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for UAVs.
• Athena (loudspeaker company), a loudspeaker manufacturing company
• Athena (library software), book finding and sorting software for libraries
• Athene Operating System, a variant build of Linux from Rocklyte Systems

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 (retailer), 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

[edit] See also

• Altena (disambiguation)