Urania (disambiguation)

Urania is a muse in Greek mythology.

Urania may also refer to:

Other mythology

• Aphrodite Urania, a title for the Greek goddess Aphrodite, as opposed to Aphrodite Pandemos
• Urania, an Oceanid
• Urania, one of the female dogs of the hunter Actaeon. Like the rest of the pack, she also devoured her master when he was transformed into a stag by Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

Awards

• Urania Award, an Italian science fiction award
• Urania Awards (film), a set of awards given at the Let's CEE Film Festival in Vienna, Austria (2012-2018)

People

• Urania Marquard Olsen (1856–1932), Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director
• Urania Papatheu (born 1965), Italian politician
• Julia Urania, wife of Roman client King Ptolemy of Mauretania

Places

• Urânia, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
• Urania, Louisiana, a town in the United States
• Urania, Michigan, a former community
• Urania, South Australia, a locality in the Yorke Peninsula Council

Publications

Magazines and journals

• Urania, a German science magazine published by Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse
• Urania (journal), a genderqueer feminist journal circulated between 1916 and 1940
• Urania (magazine), a number of science fiction magazines
• Urania - Postępy Astronomii, a Polish popular science magazine

Literature

• The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621), a work by Lady Mary Wroth
• Urania (original title Uranie), 1889 work by Camille Flammarion
• Urania, a poem by Samuel Austin

Science

Buildings

• Hala Urania, an indoor arena in Olsztyn, Poland
• Urania (Berlin), the first science center in the world, founded in Berlin in 1888
• Urania (Vienna), an observatory
• Urania Sternwarte, an observatory in Zurich
• Urania Hungarian Scientific Theatre, predecessor of the Urania National Film Theatre in Budapest, Hungary

Other

• 30 Urania, an asteroid
• Unified Reduced Non-Inductive Assessment (URANIA), an upgrade to Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
• Urania (moth), a moth genus in subfamily Uraniinae
• Urania, a synonym for a genus of plants, Ravenala
• Uranium dioxide, or urania, or uranic oxide
• Yellowcake, also called urania, concentrated uranium ore

Other uses

• , several ships of that name
• Urania Genève Sport, a Swiss football club
• Urania Records, an American classical and jazz record label founded in 1951
• Uranian (sexology), a 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex

See also

• Uraniborg, dedicated to Urania, the first observatory in modern Europe built 1576–1580
• Ourania (disambiguation)
• Uranus (disambiguation)
• The Urantia Book, a spiritual and religious book