Athena (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview

Athena is:

• The goddess in the Greek pantheon, Athena;
• Athens (Greek Athina or Αθήνα), the capital of Greece;
• A Greek first name for females;
• The town Athena, Oregon;
• The science payload for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission landers, i.e., the MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity rovers;
• A video game produced for the NES by software developer company SNK (See: Athena (video game));
• The campus-wide computing facility at Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
• A widget set for X Window System: see Project Athena
• A Turkish Ska-band that took part in Eurovision Song Contest 2004. (See Athena (band).

See also: Aethena (beetle genus, parasitic upon the honeybee), ATHENA (CERN antimatter research project)