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:
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[edit] Mythology
[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", 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.
