Athena (disambiguation)

In Greek mythology, Athena (Αθηνά) 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

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
 * Athenas Argentinian 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
 * Athena: Full Throttle, 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
 * Athena: Goddess of War, 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

Equipment in outer space

 * Athena (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

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"