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Athene (other)
Athene or Athena is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology. Athene may also refer to: * 881 Athene, a main-belt asteroid * ''Athene'' (bird), a genus of small owls * Athene (Cynuria), a town in ancient Cynuria, Greece * Athene Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica * HMS ''Athene'', an aircraft transport * USS ''Athene'' (AKA-22), an ''Artemis''-class attack cargo ship *Bachir Boumaaza or Athene (born 1980), Belgian YouTube personality and social activist *Athene (research center), stylized as ATHENE, an IT security research institute in Darmstadt, Germany People with the given name *Athene Seyler (1889–1990), English actress *Athene Donald (born 1953), British physicist See also * Altena (other) * Atena (other) * Athen (other) *Athena (other) *Athens (other) Athens is the capital of Greece. Athens may also refer to: Relating to Athens, Greece * Classical Athens, the city in Classical Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athene
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely received her name. The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens is dedicated to her. Her major symbols include owls, olive trees, snakes, and the Gorgoneion. In art, she is generally depicted wearing a helmet and holding a spear. From her origin as an Aegean palace goddess, Athena was closely associated with the city. She was known as ''Polias'' and ''Poliouchos'' (both derived from ''polis'', meaning "city-state"), and her temples were usually located atop the fortified acropolis in the central part of the city. The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is dedicated to her, along with numerous other temples and monuments. As the patron of craft and weavin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
881 Athene
881 Athene ( ''prov. designation'': ''or'' ) is a stony background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 22 July 1917, by astronomer Max Wolf at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. The likely elongated S/L-type asteroid has a rotation period of 13.9 hours and measures approximately in diameter. It was named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom in Greek mythology. Orbit and classification Located in or near the orbital region of the Eunomia family, ''Athene'' is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements. It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt at a distance of 2.1–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 3 months (1,543 days; semi-major axis of 2.61 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 14 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins at Uccle Obs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athene (bird)
''Athene'' is a genus of owls, containing nine living species, depending on classification. These birds are small, with brown and white speckles, yellow eyes, and white eyebrows. This genus is found on all continents except for Australia, Antarctica, and Sub-Saharan Africa. An evolutionary radiation of 4 species (formerly thought to be in the genus ''Ninox'') is also present in the Solomon Islands. Taxonomy and list of species The genus ''Athene'' was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822. The type species was designated as the little owl (''Athene noctua'') by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1841. The genus name is from the little owl which was closely associated with the Greek goddess Athena, and often depicted with her. Her original role as a goddess of the night might explain the link to an owl. The genus contains the following nine species. The forest owlet was formerly placed in the monotypic genus '' Heteroglaux'', and the Solomon Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athene (Cynuria)
Anthene ( grc, Ἀνθήνη), or Anthana (Ἀνθάνα), or Athene (Ἀθήνη), was a town in Cynuria, originally inhabited by the Aeginetans, and mentioned by Thucydides along with Thyrea, as the two chief places in Cynuria. Its site is tentatively located near the modern Mt. Zavitsa and Kato Doliana. See also * Archaeological Museum of Astros The Archaeological Museum of Astros is a museum in Αstros, Arcadia, Greece. It is located in a building which has been used as Karytsiotis school, since the second half of the twentieth century. In 1985, the building was converted into a museum ... * Thyrea References Populated places in ancient Argolis Populated places in ancient Laconia Former populated places in Greece Cities in ancient Peloponnese {{AncientLaconia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athene Glacier
Athene Glacier () is a glacier, long, flowing east and merging with the terminus of Casey Glacier where it discharges into Casey Inlet Casey Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet at the terminus of Casey Glacier, between Miller Point and Cape Walcott, on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928, Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935 and the United ..., on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. History Athene Glacier was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in August 1947, and by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (Trimetrogon air photography) in December 1947. It was surveyed by FIDS in November 1960, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Athene (Athena), the daughter of Zeus and goddess of the city of Athens in Greek mythology. See also * List of glaciers in the Antarctic * Glaciology References * Glaciers of Bowman Coast {{BowmanCoast-glacier-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Athene
HMS ''Athene'' was a Royal Navy aircraft transport. She was a merchant conversion, requisitioned by the Navy during the Second World War and returned after its end. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the Greek goddess Athene. She was broken up in 1963. Career She was originally built as the ''Clan Brodie'', for the Clan Line at the yards of the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company Greenock, Scotland. The Navy requisitioned her and she was launched on 1 October 1940 as the aircraft transport HMS ''Athene''. ''Athene'' received a single catapult, and operated as a seaplane carrier in the South Atlantic over 1942/43. In June 1943 ''Athene'' departed from San Diego bound for Pearl Harbor under escort by the Barnegat Class seaplane tender USS Chincoteague (AVP-24) USS ''Chincoteague'' (AVP-24) was a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946 that saw service in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, she was in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Athene (AKA-22)
USS ''Athene'' (AKA-22) was an in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. History ''Athene'' (AKA-22) was She was scrapped in 1966. named after the minor planet 881 Athene, which in turn was named after the Greek goddess Athena. She was laid down on 20 January 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1883) at Providence, R.I., by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc.; launched on 18 June 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Emily Thornton; and acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 29 September 1944. 1944 On 10 October, the attack transport got underway for shakedown training in the Chesapeake Bay. She left the east coast on 7 November, bound, via the Panama Canal, for Pearl Harbor. ''Athene'' reached Hawaii on 26 November and began a series of training exercises. The transport sailed for Eniwetok on 27 January 1945 and continued on to Saipan, arriving there on 11 February. ''Athene'' conducted two days of training exercises for troops scheduled to invade Iwo Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachir Boumaaza
Bachir Boumaaza (born 9 June 1980), known by the online pseudonym Athene, is a Belgian internet personality and Twitch streamer and YouTuber. He is best known as a World of Warcraft content creator. He is the founder of Gaming for Good and has been involved in numerous charity gaming events to raise money for charities such as Save the Children. Early life Born in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium, Boumaaza is the son of a Moroccan-Belgian couple. Both his parents worked in the Justice Department. Boumaaza claimed, in his book ''Mijn egotrip'', that his childhood was chaotic due to the cultural differences between his mother and father. Being confronted with social issues, including racism and poverty, he says he was instilled with a sense of responsibility to change these conditions. Boumaaza was introduced to video games at a young age. Political career and activism Boumaaza entered politics in 2000, and joined the progressive party, Young Green. The party was the youth organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athene (research Center)
ATHENE, formerly Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP), is the national research center for IT security and privacy in Germany and the largest research center for IT security in Europe. The research center is located in Darmstadt and deals with key issues of IT security in the digitization of government, business and society. ATHENE established a new research area in IT security research, the IT security of large systems, which is the focus of its research. Up to now, isolated aspects such as individual protocols or encryption methods have mostly been investigated. Research into the IT security of large systems should lead to a measurable increase in IT security. The research spectrum ranges from basic research to application. Director of ATHENE is Michael Waidner. Organisation ATHENE is an institution of the Fraunhofer Society and an alliance of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT), the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athene Seyler
Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 188912 September 1990) was an English actress. Early life She was born in Hackney, London; her German-born grandparents moved to the United Kingdom, where her grandfather Philip Seyler was a merchant in London. Athene Seyler was educated at Coombe Hill School in Surrey, a progressive co-educational school which disliked petitionary prayer and whose advanced biology classes studied Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species''. Seyler took part in an anti-blood sports demonstration, during which pupils captured the fox from the local hunt.MacKillop, I. D. (1986) ''The British Ethical Societies'', Cambridge University Press, nlineAvailable from: https://books.google.com/books?id=mqgsFS_MN9UC&pgis=1 (Accessed 13 May 2014). She was also active in the South Place Ethical Society during the 1920s, where her father Clarence H. Seyler took his family for many years to hear Moncure Conway lecture as an alternative to attending a religious Sunday service. Clarence r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athene Donald
Dame Athene Margaret Donald (née Griffith; born 15 May 1953) is a British physicist. She is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. Outside the University, she chaired the Athena Forum from 2009 to 2013, an organisation which aims to provide a strategic oversight of developments that seek to, or have proven to, advance the career progression and representation of women in science, technology, mathematics, and medicine (STEM) in UK higher education. She sat on the BIS (later BEIS) Diversity group, and serves the Equality and Diversity Board of Sheffield University and the Gender Balance Working Group of the ERC; she is a Patron of the Daphne Jackson Trust. She regularly writes on the topic of women in science in both mainstream media, and on her personal blog. She gives many talks on this issue. She was awarded the UKRC's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, a Suffrage Science award by the MRC in 2013 and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altena (other)
Altena may refer to: * Altena, town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ** VfB Altena, football club from that town ** Altena Castle, early 12th century castle predating the town ** Berg-Altena, a county originating in the early 12th century and later known as the County of Mark * Land van Altena, a historical region ( 900 to 1589) and former fiefdom of the Lords of Altena in the Netherlands * Altena, Drenthe, a village in the municipality of Noordenveld in the Netherlands * Altena, North Brabant, a municipality in the Netherlands * Fort Altena, New Netherland, a Dutch colony near Fort Christina, Delaware * Altena (Noir), the chief antagonist in the anime series ''Noir'' * Altena (automobile), an early Dutch automobile * Altena (surname), Dutch surname (including Van Altena) See also * Atena (other) * Athena (other) In Greek mythology, Athena ( grc, Αθηνά, links=no) is a goddess of wisdom, strategic-war and weaving. Athena may also refer to: * Athe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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