# Athena (disambiguation)

In Greek mythology, Athena (Ancient Greek: Αθηνά) is a goddess of wisdom, strategic-war and weaving.
Athena may also refer to:

## 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 (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
* 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

## 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, 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

## 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"