* 448 BC: Phidias finishes a 9 meter high statue of Athena on the Acropolis.

Athena Sword was developed by Ubisoft-Milan and released on March 9, 2004.

Fabio Tordiglione ( born 9 October 1973 ) is an Italian singer who has sung with many music bands including Rhapsody of Fire, Labyrinth, Ayreon, Vision Divine and Athena, and as a touring lead singer with American band Kamelot.

There also is the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterward wore its skin as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii.

Univac also offered a compiler for the 1100 series known as Fortran V. A spinoff of Univac Fortran V was Athena Fortran.

Athena is also a virgin goddess.

Athena ( first from the right ) is also naked, but she, unlike Aphrodite, displays some modesty by covering her genitals.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

Poseidon also had sexual intercourse with Medusa on the floor of a temple to Athena.

MIT Project Athena also produced a Kerberized version.

By the Classical period, the races were run by ephebes also in honor of Hephaestus and Athena.

The epithet parthénos (), whose origin is also unclear, meant " maiden, girl ", but also " virgin, unmarried woman " and was especially used for Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and for Athena, the goddess of strategy and tactics, handicraft, and practical reason.

As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).

Hippolytus says the free love doctrine was held by them in its purest form, and speaks in language similar to that of Irenaeus about the variety of magic arts practiced by the Simonians, and also of their having images of Simon and Helen under the forms of Zeus and Athena.

This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods, a group that includes Priapus, Hermaphroditus, Cedalion and Chiron, but also includes Pallas, the tutor of Athena.

Phidias also designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze statue of Athena which stood between it and the Propylaea, a monumental gateway that served as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

* The temple to Athena Nike ( also known as the Wingless Victory ) on the Athenian Acropolis is completed.

It is also suggested by the narrator reading books of " lore " as well as by the bust of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom.

Athena ( also known as Areia ) received him on the Acropolis of Athens and arranged a formal trial of the case before twelve Attic judges.

She also promised the sacrifice of twelve heifers if Athena could take pity on them and break the spear of Diomedes.

Scamander was also said to have attempted to kill Achilles three times, and the hero was only saved due to the intervention of Hera, Athena and Hephaestus.

Strabo also registers stray comments on Myron, especially a large group at Samos ; several surviving heads were identified as copies of Myron's Samian Athena by C. K.

Locrus was also a Parian statuary, of unknown date whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias.

The Parthenon itself replaced an older temple of Athena, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC.

This building replaced a hekatompedon ( meaning " hundred-footer ") and would have stood beside the archaic temple dedicated to the Athena Polias.

Prior to mission cancellation, cost overruns and technical problems caused the Lander design to be rescoped, and the planned large Athena rover was replaced by a small rover duplicating the Sojourner which was a part of the Mars Pathfinder mission.

Cleitarchus claims that the destruction was a whim ; Plutarch and Diodorus recount that it was intended as retribution for Xerxes ' burning of the temple of Athena on the Acropolis in Athens in 480 BC ( the destroyed temple was replaced by the Parthenon of Athens ).

To take their revenge on Paris, the remaining goddesses, Athena and Hera, replaced the real Helen with a phantom.

The 4th century BC silver tetradrachmon (" four drachma ") coin, depicting a deified Alexander with two horns, replaced the 5th century BC Athenian silver tetradrachmon ( which depicted the goddess Athena ) as the most widely used coin in the Greek world.

For the same reason Andrew and Mat split from the band and were replaced by Oleg Smirnoff at keyboards ( ex Eldritch ) and Matteo Amoroso at drums ( ex Athena ).

A four stage Athena II using Castor 120s as both first and second stages became the first commercially developed launch vehicle to launch a lunar probe ( Lunar Prospector ) in 1998.

American Technōs also published Super Bowling ( developed by Athena ) and Super Pinball: Behind the Mask ( developed by Meldac / KAZe ) for the Super NES and the helicopter game Strike Point for the PlayStation.

Among the other technologies developed for Project Athena were the Xaw widget set, Zephyr Notification Service ( which was an early instant messaging service ), and the Hesiod name and directory service.

The original concept of Project Athena was that there would be course-specific software developed to use in conjunction with teaching.

* tkWWW, a defunct web browser developed for Athena by Joseph Wang

* Castle of Dragon ( developed by Athena )

* World Bowling ( developed by Athena )

Project Athena ( a joint project between Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ), MIT and IBM to provide easy access to computing resources for all students ) needed a platform-independent graphics system to link together its heterogeneous multiple-vendor systems ; the window system then under development in Carnegie Mellon University's Andrew Project did not make licenses available, and no alternatives existed.

* Aleph, a system constructed at Athena Station in the cyberpunk novel Halo by Tom Maddox

When Project Athena ended in June 1991, the computing environment was renamed to the Athena system,

In keeping with its original intent, access to the Athena system has been greatly enlarged in the last several years.

Originally, the Athena release used Berkeley Software Distribution ( BSD ) as the base operating system for all hardware platforms.

The leading edge system architecture and design features pioneered by Athena, using current terminology, include:

Because the functional and system management benefits provided by the Athena system were not available in any other system, its use extended beyond the MIT campus.

Subsequently, the Windows NT network operating system from Microsoft incorporates Kerberos and several other basic architecture design features first implemented by Athena.