In Greek mythology,

Athena 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 ...

( grc, Αθηνά, links=no) 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 Athena is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,126 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Pendleton– Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Athena, about halfway between Pendleton, Oregon, and Wa ...

, United States *

Athena (Olympic Mountains) Athena is a 7,365-foot-elevation (2,245 meter) mountain summit located within Olympic National Park in Jefferson County, Washington, Jefferson County of Washington (U.S. state), Washington state. Athena is situated at the head of the Hoh Gl ...

, a summit in Olympic National Park, United States *

Leicester Athena Athena is a Grade II-listed events venue in the cultural quarter of Leicester City Centre, England. Built originally as an Odeon Cinema in 1936, it closed for most of the 1990s and remained vacant up until 2005, where the building was restored as ...

, venue and landmark in the English Midlands

Companies

Athena (game developer) was a Japanese video game developer, founded in July 1987. Due to the difficulties of recovering financially in the games market, in 2013, the Tokyo Court decided to start the company's bankruptcy process. Games *'' Biometal'' (Super NES, 1993 ...

, Japan *

Athena Eizou is an early pioneering Japanese adult video (AV) production company. They have offices in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan. Company information Athena Eizou was founded December 21, 1981, by pink film director Tadashi Yoyogi and Hikaru Kitoh (� ...

, a Japanese adult video company *

Athena (retailer) Athena is a British art retailer and retail chain, which was founded in 1964. Today it sells fine art prints from a variety of UK artists. However it is best known for its iconic posters such as '' L'Enfant'' (a picture of a muscular man cradlin ...

, a British art retailer famous for its posters * Athena Scientific, a science and engineering publishing company co-founded by MIT professor

Dimitri Bertsekas Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas (born 1942, Athens, el, Δημήτρης Παντελής Μπερτσεκάς) is an applied mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist, a McAfee Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering ...

* Athena Technologies, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles *

athenahealth Athenahealth (stylized as athenahealth) is a private American company that provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps in the United States. The company was founded in 1997 in San Diego and is now headquartere ...

, a Massachusetts-based Healthcare technology company

Arts and entertainment

Music

Athena (band) Athena is a rock/ska band from Istanbul, Turkey, founded by twin brothers Hakan Özoğuz (guitar and backing vocals) and Gökhan Özoğuz (lead vocals and guitar) in 1987. It is regarded as one of the best Turkish rock groups by many listeners. ...

, a Turkish ska punk band * "

Athena (song) "Athena" (the working title being "Theresa") is a song written by Pete Townshend and recorded by The Who. It appears as the first track on the group's tenth album ''It's Hard'', released in 1982. Written for actress Theresa Russell, the song was ...

", the first track on

The Who The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964. Their classic lineup consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist and singer John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered ...

's 1982 studio album, ''It's Hard'' * "Athena", a song by

Tiësto Tijs Michiel Verwest (; born 17 January 1969), known professionally as Tiësto ( ), is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda. He was voted "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by '' Mix'' magazine in a 2010/2011 poll amongst fans. In 2013, he was ...

from the album ''

Parade of the Athletes ''Parade of the Athletes'' is a retrospective mix by Dutch DJ Tiësto of his live set performed during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece on 13 August 2004 (see 2004 in music). This was the first time that a D ...

'' * "Athena", a song by

Greyson Chance Greyson Michael Chance (born August 16, 1997) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He rose to national attention in 2010 with his performance of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" at a grade school music festival which went viral on YouTube, gai ...

from the album ''

Palladium Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself na ...

Video games

* ''Athena'' (arcade game), a 1986 arcade game made by SNK, whose main character is "Princess Athena" ** ''

Psycho Soldier is a platform game developed by Japanese software company SNK. It was released in 1987. It is a distant sequel to ''Athena'', released a year earlier, featuring a late descendant of that game's main character. Ocean Software on their Imagine ...

'', the 1987 sequel to the arcade game, sometimes referred to as ''Athena 2'' ** '' Athena: Full Throttle'', a 2006 sequel to the arcade game *

, 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 The statue of Athena Parthenos ( grc, Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit=Athena the Virgin) was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena. Attributed to Phidias and dated to the mid-fifth century BCE, it was an offering from ...

, 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 (spacecraft) ''Athena'' was a proposed space mission that would have performed a single flyby of asteroid 2 Pallas, the third largest asteroid in the Solar System. If ''Athena'' would have been funded, it was planned to share the launch vehicle with th ...

, a small proposed probe to visit Pallas, the asteroid *

Athena (rocket family) Athena was a 1990s Lockheed Martin expendable launch system which underwent several name changes in its lifetime. Development began at the Lockheed Corporation in 1993, where the design was known as the Lockheed Launch Vehicle. The name was sub ...

, Lockheed Martin's series of light rocket boosters **

Athena I The Athena I, known as the Lockheed Launch Vehicle (LLV) at the time of its first flight and Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV) at the time of its second flight, was an American small expendable launch system which was used for four launches b ...

Athena II The Athena II is an American small expendable launch system which was used for three launches between 1998 and 1999, and which was scheduled to return to service in 2012 but has not been flown again . It is a member of the Athena family of rocket ...

Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (''Athena'') is an X-ray observatory mission selected by European Space Agency (ESA) within its Cosmic Vision program to address the Hot and Energetic Universe scientific theme. ''Athena'' will ...

, a planned space telescope by the ESA *

Athena-Fidus Athena-Fidus (Access on theatres for European allied forces nations-French Italian dual use satellite) is a French-Italian telecommunication satellite providing high-throughput secure communications to both nation's armed forces and their emerge ...

, a French-Italian, military communications satellite * Athena, the scientific payload on the

Mars Exploration Rover NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, ''Spirit (rover), Spirit'' and ''Opportunity (rover), Opportunity'', exploring the planet Mars. It began in 2003 with the launch of the two rover ...

Other uses in science and technology

ATHENA 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 ...

, a CERN antimatter research project *

ATHENA computer The UNIVAC Athena computer was the processor for ground commands to the HGM-25A Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as part of Western Electric's missile guidance system. The Athena was the "first transistorized digital computer to ...

, an early missile guidance computer *

Project Athena Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use. It was launched in 1983, and research and development ran until June 30, 1991. , At ...

, a project to produce a computing environment for educational use *

X Athena Widgets X Athena Widgets or Xaw is a GUI widget library for the X Window System. Developed as part of Project Athena, Xaw was written under the auspices of the MIT X Consortium as a sample widget set built on X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt); Xt and Xaw are co ...

, 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 The November 2012 nor'easter was a powerful nor'easter that brought significant early season snow to the Northeastern United States. Many of the areas hit by the storm had been affected by Hurricane Sandy days before, which further complicated re ...

, referred to by The Weather Channel as ''Winter Storm Athena'' *

Operation ATHENA Operation Athena was the Canadian Forces' contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The operation was divided in two phases: the first one took place from July 2003 to July 2005 in the Kabul region and the s ...

, Canada's involvement in the 2001 War in Afghanistan * Ulmus parvifolia 'Emer I', an elm cultivar, sold as "Athena"