Athena (disambiguation)

In Greek mythology, Athena () is a goddess of wisdom, strategic-war and weaving.

Athena may also refer to:

• Athena (given name), for people and fictional characters

Places

• Athena, Oregon, United States
• Athena (Olympic Mountains), a summit in Olympic National Park, United States
• Leicester Athena, venue and landmark in the English Midlands

Companies

• Athena (game developer), Japan
• Athena Computer & Electronic Systems, a defunct American laptop pioneer
• Athena Eizou, a Japanese adult video company
• Athena (retailer), a British art retailer famous for its posters
• Athena Scientific, a science and engineering publishing company co-founded by MIT professor Dimitri Bertsekas
• Athena Technologies, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles
• athenahealth, a Massachusetts-based Healthcare technology company

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Athena (band), a Turkish ska punk band
• "Athena (song)", the first track on The Who's 1982 studio album, It's Hard
• "Athena", a song by Tiësto from the album Parade of the Athletes
• "Athena", a song by Greyson Chance from the album Palladium
• "Athena", a song by Nova Twins from the album Who Are the Girls?
• Athenas, Argentine Catholic music singer

Video games

• Athena (arcade game), a 1986 arcade game made by SNK, whose main character is "Princess Athena"
• Psycho Soldier, the 1987 sequel to the arcade game, sometimes referred to as Athena 2
• ', a 2006 sequel to the arcade game
• Athena (game developer), Japan

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Athena (1954 film), an MGM musical
• Athena (2022 film), a French film
• Athena (novel), a 1995 novel by John Banville
• ', a 2010 South Korean television drama series
• Mourning Athena, a Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC
• Athena Parthenos, a Greek statue in the Parthenos

Ships

• Athena (yacht), formerly the largest private sailing yacht in the world
• MV Astoria, cruiseliner formerly "MS Athena", former transatlantic liner Stockholm
• MS Pearl Seaways, cruise-ferry formerly "M/S Athena"
• 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
• SS Athena, a 1893 Greek steamship

Science and technology

Equipment in outer space

• Athena (asteroid spacecraft), a small proposed probe to visit Pallas, the asteroid
• Athena (rocket family), Lockheed Martin's series of light rocket boosters
• Athena I
• Athena II
• Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics, a planned space telescope by the ESA
• Athena-Fidus, a French-Italian, military communications satellite
• Athena, the scientific payload on the Mars Exploration Rovers
• Athena, the Nova-C lander that carried out the Intuitive Machines IM-2 lunar landing mission

Other uses in science and technology

• ATHENA, a CERN antimatter research project
• the ATHENA missile guidance computer for the HGM-25A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile
• Athena 1, an early laptop
• Project Athena, a project to produce a computing environment for educational use
• Project Athena (Intel), a laptop certification program
• X Athena Widgets, X Window System's widget toolkit
• Advanced Test High Energy Asset, a directed-energy weapon
• Amazon Athena, a database system

Other uses

• ATHENA (European cultural heritage project) an EU-funded project
• November 2012 nor'easter, referred to by The Weather Channel as Winter Storm Athena
• Operation ATHENA, Canada's involvement in the 2001 War in Afghanistan
• Ulmus parvifolia 'Emer I', an elm cultivar, sold as "Athena"

See also

• Atena (disambiguation)
• Athene (disambiguation)
• Athens (disambiguation)
• Athina (disambiguation)
• Altena (disambiguation)
• SS Athenia
• Aethina, a genus of beetle including the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida)
• Pallas Athena (disambiguation)
• Temple of Athena (disambiguation)