Athena is a name that has stood for figures in mythology and fiction. It has also been used for music and science as well:

Mythology

• Athena (also called Pallas Athena), the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy and war

Drawing from a sculpture of Athena at the Louvre. ... Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases... Wisdom is the ability to make correct judgments and decisions. ... A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, as differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand. ... The only atomic weapons ever used in war - the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, effectively ending World War II. The bombs over Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki immediately killed over 120,000 people. ...

Fiction and Entertainment

• Athena is a 1954 M-G-M musical film starring Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell
• Athena is a video game made by SNK for the NES video game console
• Athena Asamiya is a fictional character from SNK's King of Fighters game series
• Athena is a Turkish ska-punk band
• Athena is a power metal band from Italy.
• "Athena" is the first track on The Who's final studio album, It's Hard (1982)
• "Athena" is a version of Adagio in G Minor by DJ Tiesto.
• Athena is a recurring character in the original Battlestar Galactica
• Athena is one of the Ladies of Kobol (Goddesses of the Colonials) in the new Battlestar Galactica.
• Athena is the champion angel in the anime and manga series Angelic Layer

Athena was released on November 4, 1954 by M-G-M. The film stars Jane Powell as Athena Mulvain and Debbie Reynolds as Minerva Mulvane, two sisters who live with their weight-lifting grandfather Ulysses (Louis Calhern) and star-gazing grandmother Salome (Evelyn Varden) - along with their other five beautiful... Screenshot Athena is a arcade game, produced and published in 1987 by SNK. It was later ported to the NES. Only the NES version has been released in North America. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... It has been suggested that SNK Playmore be merged into this article or section. ... Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... Athena Asamiya is a character from SNK Playmores King of Fighters series of fighting games. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... The King of Fighters (or KOF for short) is a fighting game series by SNK that debuted in 1994. ... Athena is the name of a Ska band from Turkey. ... This page is about the musical style. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Power metal is a style of heavy metal music. ... Athena is a song written by Pete Townshend of The Who. ... The Who are a British rock band that first came to prominence in the 1960s. ... Its Hard is the final studio album (although a new album, Who2, is set to come out 2006) by British rock band The Who and the second album after drummer Keith Moon died. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ... Maren Jensen as Athena Battlestar Galactica Lieutenant Athena is the name of a fictional character in the original Battlestar Galactica television series which ran on ABC from 1978 to 1979. ... Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television series, produced in 1978 by Glen Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. ... The Lords of Kobol are the God(esse)s of the Colonials, whom are descended from emigrants from Kobol, in the Battlestar Galactica fictional universe. ... Battlestar Galactica was first reimagined as a science fiction miniseries that was first broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel on December 8, 2003. ... Angelic Layer (エンジェリックレイヤー Enjerikku Reiyā) is an anime and manga series released by the manga team CLAMP. The manga is published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten, and in English by TOKYOPOP. The television series aired from April 1–September 30, 2001 and ran for 26 episodes. ...

Science and Computers

• "Athena" is the combined name for the MER-A "Spirit" and MER-B "Opportunity" rovers comprising the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
• "Athena" is the campus-wide computing facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Project Athena was an experiment by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the use of computers in university educational programs.
• ATHENA is the name of the CERN antimatter research project
• Athena is a light rocket booster from Lockheed Martin.
• Athena[1] is a is a two-way communication channel for Nevow[2] applications.

MER-A (Spirit) is the first of the two Mars Exploration Rover Missions. ... MER-B (Opportunity) is the second of the two rovers of NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission. ... Artists Concept of Rover on Mars NASAs Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission (since 2003) is a unmanned Mars exploration mission that includes sending two Rovers (robots) to explore the Martian surface and geology. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. It was launched in 1983, and ran through June 30, 1991, eight years after it began. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Drawing from a sculpture of Athena at the Louvre. ... CERN logo CERN is the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research ), the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ... Antimatter or contra-terrene matter is matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter. ... Lockheed/BAE/Northrop F-35 Lockheed Trident missile C-130 Hercules; in production since the 1950s, now as the C-130J Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an aerospace manufacturer formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. ...

Other

• Athena is a town in Oregon, United States
• "Athena" is a given name for females
• "Athena", along with "Phoebos", were the mascots for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
• The Mourning Athena is a Greek relief sculpture dating around c.470 BC
• Athina Onassis is the French-Greek granddaughter of the late shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis
• Athena (retailer), a British arts and craft retailer

Athena is a city located in Umatilla County, Oregon. ... Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 9th 255,026 km² 420 km 580 km 2. ... A given name specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name. ... Statue of Apollo at the British Museum Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. ... Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, FL. A mascot is something, typically an animal or human character used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team (the name often corresponds with the mascot), society or corporation. ... The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα Athína IPA ) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world. ... The Mourning Athena is a Greek relief sculpture dating around c. ... Athina Roussel (born January 29, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. ... Aristotle Onassis Aristotelis Sokratis Onassis (in Greek, Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης) (January 15, 1906 – March 15, 1975) was the most famous Greek shipping magnate of the 20th century. ...

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