Athena (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 In entertainment 2 In science and technology 3 In other fields 4 See also 5 References

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:

[edit] 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 charecter in this game.

[edit] 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 Institute , an analyst firm to create Brilliant (Smart+Green) buildings, businesses, communities and utilities. ^[1] This page links here and is a redirect with possibilities. You can help by eliminating the redirect command in the redirecting page and expanding it.

• Athena (loudspeaker company), a loudspeaker manufacturing company.
• Athena (library software), 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.

[edit] 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.
• 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.

[edit] See also

• Altena (disambiguation)
• Athene (disambiguation)

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.athenacompany.com/corporate/