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Athena

Pallas \Pal"las\ (p[a^]l"las), prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. Palla`s, Palla`dos.] (Gr. Myth.) Pallas Athena, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athena, Pallas Athene or Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Athena

Greek goddess of wisdom, skill in the arts, warfare, etc., from Latin Athena, from Greek Athene, perhaps from a name in a lost pre-Hellenic language.

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athena

n. (context Greek god English) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.

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Athena, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 1221
Housing Units (2000): 473
Land area (2000): 0.567256 sq. miles (1.469186 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.567256 sq. miles (1.469186 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03200
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.814039 N, 118.491205 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97813
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Athena

Athena (; Attic Greek: , Athēnā, or , Athēnaia; Epic: , Athēnaiē; Doric: , Athānā) or Athene (; Ionic: , Athēnē), often given the epithet Pallas (; ), is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, mathematics, strength, war strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Minerva is the Roman goddess identified with Athena. Athena is known for her calm temperament, as she moves slowly to anger. She is noted to have only fought for just reasons, and would not fight without a purpose.

Athena is portrayed as an astute companion of heroes and is the patron goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virgin patroness of Athens. The Athenians founded the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens (Athena Parthenos), in her honour.

Veneration of Athena was so persistent that archaic myths about her were recast to adapt to cultural changes. In her role as a protector of the city ( polis), many people throughout the Greek world worshipped Athena as Athena Polias (Ἀθηνᾶ Πολιάς "Athena of the city"). While the city of Athens and the goddess Athena essentially bear the same name (Athena the goddess, Athenai the city), it is not known which of the two words is derived from the other.

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:

Athena (video game)

is a platform arcade game, produced and published in 1986 by SNK. It was later ported to the NES, developed by Micronics. Conversions were done also for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1987 by Ocean Software under their Imagine label. However, only the NES version was released for North American homes until the PlayStation Network saw a release of the arcade original in 2011. The game's protagonist, Princess Athena, has gone on to appear in later fighting games by SNK as a secret character or assistant to her descendant Athena Asamiya, a frequent main character in these games.

Athena (band)

Athena is a ska punk band from Istanbul, Turkey that is famous in Turkey and is also well known in Germany. Its current line-up is composed of Hakan Özoğuz ( guitar and backing vocals), Gökhan Özoğuz ( lead vocals and guitar), Umut Arabacı ( bass), Emre Ataker ( keyboards), Sinan Tinar ( drums).

Athena (film)

Athena (1954) is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Steve Reeves, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Evelyn Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The film tells the story of an old-fashioned conservative lawyer who falls in love with a daughter from a family of fitness fanatics.

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 studio album It's Hard, released in 1982. Written for actress Theresa Russell, the song was the first single from It's Hard. The single was a moderate success reaching the Top 40 in both Britain and America.

Athena (Battlestar Galactica)

Athena is the name of several characters in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe.

  • Lieutenant Athena, a bridge officer on the Battlestar Galactica according to the original continuity, played by Maren Jensen
  • Athena (Lady of Kobol), one of the Ladies of Kobol (Goddesses of the Colonials) according to the new continuity
    • Tomb of Athena, the location where Athena is buried, and contains a map of the 13 colonies
  • Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica), Sharon Agathon, whose callsign is Athena, the Cylon that was inducted into the Colonial Fleet, played by Grace Park.
Athena (company)

is a Japanese video game developer, founded in July 1987.

Athena (Marvel Comics)

Athena is a fictional deity appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is based on the Greek Goddess of the same name. Athena first appeared in the pages of Thor #164, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby.

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 subsequently changed to the Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle when Lockheed merged with Martin Marietta. Late in the program's life the name was finally changed to Athena, and all of the launches after the demonstration flight in August 1995 were conducted using that name. Athena was retired from service in 2001, however in 2010 it was announced that it would be put back into production, with launches set to resume in 2012. In September 2010 Athena was added to NASA's Launch Services II contract. no such flight has materialized.

Athena (comics)

Athena, in comics, may refer to:

  • 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 (DC Comics), two DC Comics characters, Pallas Athena
  • Athena (Image Comics), an Image Comics character, Lily Nalin, and member of Bloodstrike
  • Athena (Warheads), a Marvel UK character and member of the Warheads
  • Athena (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book series from Dynamite Entertainment
Athena (Saint Seiya)

(spelled in Greek as and , in the manga and the anime adaptation respectively, and occasionally as in both) is one of the main characters in the Saint Seiya series, a manga authored by Masami Kurumada, which was later adapted to anime and originated three other spin-off manga.

She was introduced by Masami Kurumada in chapter 1 of his manga, Saint Seiya, as the mythical Greek goddess, and then in chapter 3 of the first volume as Saori Kido, the head of the Graude Foundation, an extremely beautiful young woman, who radiates elegance, wisdom and serenity, and who is followed and protected by her dedicated Saints. In the anime adaptation, she appears in episode 1, initially unaware of her divine nature. She also appears in several other related works, such as a sequel, five films, video games and two manga by different authors. Saori is also a main character in the official sequel to the original manga, Saint Seiya: Next Dimension. In alternative spin-off series Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, written and drawn by Shiori Teshirogi, introduces an alternate eighteenth century incarnation of Athena named , an orphan from a small village of Italy who is adopted by the Sanctuary. The fifteenth century incarnation also appears briefly, whome Teshirogi refers to as .

Athena (retailer)

Athena was a British art retailer, and was formerly a large retail chain, famous for selling distinctive posters such as L'Enfant (a picture of a muscular man cradling a baby), the Hobbit from the 1970s by Jimmy Cauty, the Tennis Girl poster from 1976 and " Beyond City Limits," published in the 1990s. The company's popular success divided opinion amongst intellectuals and art critics who were uncertain as to whether these works were too vulgar and populist to be considered art.

Athena's first shop was opened by Ole Christensen in Hampstead, London in July 1964, and then bought by E&O which expanded Athena to 60 shops, making sure to keep the ethos on fine art reprints.

Eventually the chain was sold off by E&O in 1977 to the Pentos Group before Athena went into administration when it failed in 1995. The profitable stores were reopened by its former franchisees but the last of these shops in Exeter, Devon ceased trading in September 2014, bringing its high street era to an end. This was due to rising shop rents and rates, plus increasing competition from internet retailers.

The e-commerce company Vivarti currently trades online with the byline powered by Athena, but it was never connected with Athena. With the rise of digital media, many of the famous prints that were sold by Athena like the Tennis Girl can be bought at other retailers like Amazon, AllPosters & King and McGaw which was described in August 2013 by The Daily Telegraph as the Athena for the internet age.

Abigail Harman's images of teddybears were discovered by an Athena scout in Cambridge and 25 different images were subsequently published and sold worldwide as cards, posters and wrapping paper under the name 'Abigail's Bears' in the 1990s.

ATHENA (European cultural heritage project)

ATHENA is a European Union funded project which aims to provide content to Europeana. It is led by the Italian Ministry of Culture, and "takes its origins from the existing MINERVA network."

Athena (singer)

or Athena Tibi is a Filipino singer, stage actress and movie actress from Manila, Philippines and raised in Saitama, Japan.

She is best known for her role as Kristine Santos in the 2009 film A Journey Home by Paul Soriano and as Reena San Jose in the 4th Wall Theater Company production of Rivalry, by Jaime Del Mundo and Ed Gatchalian, based on the Ateneo–La Salle rivalry between two universities in the Philippines. She announced her debut live show in Japan on November 18, 2012.

Athena (novel)

Athena (1995) is a novel by John Banville.

In it a woman steps out of her lover's canvasses. It contains a character called Morrow. There is murder, art and Greek mythology. There is also a serial killer.

Reviewers compared it favourably with the writing of John Fowles, William Gass, John Hawkes and Vladimir Nabokov.

Athena (Andreadis)

Athena Andreadis (artist name: Athena) is an Anglo-Greek musician, singer and songwriter born in London to Greek parents. In 2008, she was featured in a British television documentary called ATHENA: MY MUSIC .

Usage examples of "athena".

Together with Sojourn and his daughter, I took Athena and a guitar, and we hit the open cafes up and down the Italian Riviera.

And their ship was fashioned by Pallas Athena, not such a one as are the ships among the Colchians, on the vilest of which we chanced.

The chariot has been halted in the act of bearing down on Diomedes, all the human players here unaware that the goddess Athena has stopped everything while she plays dolls with her chosen champion, dressing Diomedes in forcefields and thru-view contact lenses and nano-augmenters like some pre-teen girl playing with her Barbie.

Athena finishes her fussing with Diomedes and releases her grip on space and time.

General Gallagher and Athena had presented logical reasons for taking the Rangers and her.

This is, after all, Hera, wife and sister to Zeus, queen of the gods and the most powerful of all of the goddesses with the possible exception of Athena.

He told of the appearance of Pallas Athena, of her insults and taunts.

Blade, Athena, and Grizzly, all wearing ill-fitting white parkas, followed.

Casting a parting glance at the Indian encampment, he jogged in pursuit of the Vampires and Athena.

And the prospect of Athena being held by another group of Vampires who were prowling through the wilderness in search of new victims caused him intense mental anguish.

The issue, basically, was whether the shower of new comets that had been born with Athena provided adequate evidence that the previously existing short-period comets—the ones with aphelia showing a statistical clustering at the distance of Jupiter's orbit—had originated in a similar episode involving Venus.

The issue, basically, was whether the shower of new comets that had been born with Athena provided adequate evidence that the previously existing short-period comets-the ones with aphelia showing a statistical clustering at the distance of Jupiter’s orbit-had originated in a similar episode involving Venus.

On seeing one so unkempt and so begrimed with salt water, the others scampered off along the spits that jutted out into the sea, but the daughter of Alcinous stood firm, for Athena put courage into her heart and took away all fear from her.

Back in Athena, whatever elaborate metaphoric action they'd used to instruct the communications software to halt them, append suitable explanatory headers and checksums, then turn the whole package bit-by-bit into a stream of modulated gamma rays, it could never have fully prepared them for the fact that in a subjective instant they'd be stepping ninety-seven years into the future, and ninety-seven light years from home.

The shuttle trip was short and its single forward viewscreen was dominated by the massive orange hulk of the Athena.