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 (Greek rock band), a Greek rock 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
  • 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
  • Athena (comics)

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 experiment, 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
  • Athena (Battlestar Galactica)

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)