Leviathan (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview

Leviathan, a Biblical sea monster, has had its name reused numerous times:

• In the 1651 book Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• In the Illuminatus trilogy
• In Moby-Dick as a reference to the whale
• In the Farscape science fiction series (living spaceships such as Moya and Talyn)
• In the 1989 film Leviathan
• In the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering as a creature card
• In the popular Final Fantasy video game series as a powerful creature who can be summoned; Leviathan's attacks usually deal elemental water damage and its form is usually that of a serpent
• In Disney's Atlantis as a guardian construct of the Atlanteans.
• The 1992 novel Leviathan by Paul Auster.
• The Leviathan comic strip by Peter Blegvad.
• The 1920's-30's United States Lines ocean liner "SS Leviathan", world's biggest ship for nearly 20 years. Launched as the "Vaterland" by the Hamburg-America Line in 1913, seized from the Germans by the Americans in New York in 1917, renamed "Leviathan" by President Woodrow Wilson. Scrapped in 1936 in Scotland.
• A number
• A vehicle in the game Unreal Tournament 2004
• Black metal band from San Francisco, USA, who have released material on Moribund Cult Records.
• In the 2003 LucasArts RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as Admiral Saul Karath's flagship.
• In Hebrew, leviathan also means a device for washing raw wool.
• A ship in the online computer game Continuum.
• A 1999 'biography' of the city of Sydney, Australia by author John Birmingham