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
Companies
In music
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
- 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, Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics, is a planned space telescope by ESA.
In other fields
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