Athena (disambiguation)

Athena is a goddess of wisdom, strategic-war and weaving in Greek mythology. It is also a feminine given name, after the goddess.

Athena can also refer to:

Places

Athena (company), a Japanese video game company
Athena Eizou, a Japanese adult video company
Athena (retailer), a British art retailer famous for its posters
Athena Technologies, a Virginia-based company specializing in navigation and control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles
athenahealth, a Massachusetts-based Healthcare technology company

Athena (film), a 1954 MGM musical film starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone and Louis Calhern

Lieutenant Athena, a character in the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica
- Sharon "Athena" Agathon, a character in the 2004 re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica, based very loosely on Lieutenant Athena; see Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica)
Athena, a fictional character in the TV series Stargate SG-1
Athena: Goddess of War, a 2010 South Korean television drama series about espionage and terrorism.

Athena (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character and member of the Olympian Gods
Thena, another Marvel Comics character who has gone by the name Athena, a member of the Eternals
Athena (Saint Seiya), a character based on the goddess in the manga/anime Saint Seiya
Tennousu Athena, a character in the manga/anime Hayate the Combat Butler and the eponymous protagonist's first true love

Athena (arcade game), a 1986 arcade game made by SNK, whose main character is "Princess Athena"
- Athena: Full Throttle, a 2006 sequel to the arcade game
- Athena Asamiya, a character in the video game Psycho Soldier and the The King of Fighters series, described as a descendant of Princess Athena
Athena, an important character in the Sony PlayStation 2 game God of War

Project Athena, a joint project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use
X Athena Widgets, X Window System's widget toolkit
Athena, an Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer on each of the Mars Exploration Mission rovers, "Spirit" and "Opportunity"
ATHENA, a CERN antimatter research project
ATHENA computer, an early missile guidance computer
Athena (rocket family), a series of light rocket boosters from Lockheed Martin
- Athena I
- Athena II
Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics, previously the International X-ray Observatory, a planned space telescope by ESA

Mourning Athena, a Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC
Operation ATHENA, Canadian Forces contribution to the post-9/11 War in Afghanistan
Leicester Athena, a conferencing and banqueting venue in Leicester, UK
ATHENA (European cultural heritage project) a European Union-funded project on access to cultural heritage networks
November 2012 nor'easter, referred to by The Weather Channel as Winter Storm Athena

Athena (yacht), formerly the largest private sailing yacht in the world
MS Athena, former transatlantic liner Stockholm
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 Athenia, the first British ship to be sunk by Nazi Germany in World War II