Athena has been used numerous times as a symbol of a republic by different countries and appears on currency as she did on the ancient drachma of Athens.

Athena appears in the television series Stargate SG-1 when she kidnaps Vala Mal Doran to gain information on the Clava Thessara Infinitas ( The Key to Infinite Treasure ).

In fifth-century Athens, Pandora made a prominent appearance in what, at first, appears an unexpected context, in a marble relief or bronze appliqués as a frieze along the base of the Athena Parthenos, the culminating experience on the Acropolis.

Also, aside from the above titles, she appears in the SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash trading card game series, as an SNK character card or as an Action / Counter card, and, in the final Days of Memories game, she makes a cameo as a foreign cousin of Athena Asamiya.

The head of the Roman goddess Minerva ( Greek goddess Athena ) appears in the center of an oval with an outside star pattern surrounding the whole.

It also appears that Goodness is posing as Athena in the Countdown series, using Amazon centers to recruit new female fighters.

* In the Percy Jackson & The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan Athena is the mother of Annabeth Chase, one of the main characters in both series and has appeared in a few of the books.

She played the role of the Greek Goddess Athena in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.

Zeus commands Athena ( Susan Fleetwood ) to give Perseus her owl Bubo ; but she orders Hephaestus ( Pat Roach ) to build a mechanical replica of Bubo instead, who leads Perseus to the Stygian Witches ( Flora Robson, Anna Manahan, and Freda Jackson ).

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Elizabeth I and the three Goddesses Juno ( mythology ) | Juno, Athena & Venus ( mythology ) | Venus.

* Tait, Sylvia & James " A Quartet of Unlikely Discoveries " ( Athena Press 2004 ) ISBN 1-84401-343-X

Among the earliest all-female rock bands to be signed to a record label were Goldie & the Gingerbreads, to Atlantic Records in 1964, The Pleasure Seekers with Suzi Quatro to Hideout Records in 1964 and Mercury Records in 1968, The Feminine Complex to Athena Records in 1968, and Fanny ( who pioneered the all-female band sound in the early to mid 1970s ) in 1969 when Mo Ostin signed them to Warner Bros. Records.

The bridge was planned in the mid-1990s and was built by a French-Greek consortium led by the French group Vinci, and which includes the Greek companies Hellenic Technodomiki-TEV, J & P-Avax, Athena, Proodeftiki and Pantechniki.

External recognition has included Queen ’ s Anniversary Prizes for Green Chemistry and the Comprehensive Cancer Centre ( 2006 & 2012 ), Times Higher Education Awards for Innovation in Culture and the Arts ( 2008 ), Entrepreneurial University of the Year ( 2009 ), Engineering Research Team of the Year ( 2010 ), Innovative Teacher of the Year ( 2011 ) and Outstanding Fundraising Team ( 2012 ), and an Athena Swan Institutional Silver Award ( 2012 ).

The GIS members are present in the movie Angels & Demons ; in the videogame Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield and in the expansion Athena Sword.

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

* Certain mythological stories or deities that seem to have no parallels in the mythologies of other Indo-European peoples ( e. g. the Olympians Athena, Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis, and Aphrodite, whose origins seem Anatolian / Levantine ).

Another ancient quest tale, Homer's Odyssey, tells of Odysseus, whom the gods have cursed to wander and suffer for many years before Athena persuades the Olympians to allow him to return home.

Among the Olympians, the weaver goddess is Athena, who punished the impious pretensions of her acolyte Arachne by turning her into a weaving spider.

Athena Tacha Spear's book, Brâncuși's Birds, ( CAA monographs XXI, NYU Press, New York, 1969 ), first sorted out the 36 versions and their development, from the early Măiastra, to the Golden Bird of the late teens, to the Bird in Space, which emerged in the early ' 20s and which Brâncuși perfected throughout his life.

Pallas Athena | Wisdom gives advice ; with Ptolemy I Soter, a master in objectivity in his book on Alexander the Great, below in profile.

The play was partially documented by Gerard Legh in his Accedens of Armory, a book of heraldry woodcuts, which described Dudley's role as Prince Pallaphilos, the lieutenant of Athena and Patron of the Order of the Pegasus.

In Masami Kurumada's Saint Seiya comic book, which is inspired by Greek myths, the character Perseus Algol is one of the warriors known as the Saints of Athena, and he wears an armor known as the Perseus Cloth, which represents the mythological figure and also his constellation.

The school seal is an open book supported by the torch of learning, and the school crest contains the head of Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom.

She came to the attention of a wider audience through her criticism of the claims of Martin Bernal in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization in her book Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History.

Martin Bernal's much debated book Black Athena ( 1987 ) argues that the historiography on Ancient Greece has been in part influenced by nationalism and ethnocentrism.

The series was translated by Alethea and Athena Nibley and adapted by comic book writer Marv Wolfman.

Hélisenne de Crenne's novel is a unique blending of sentimental and chivalric elements ( at the end of the novel, Athena — who sees the work in terms of battles and combats — and Venus — who sees the work in terms of love — fight over the book ), humanist scholarship, orality and eloquence.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

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

In the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys series, the contest is altered somewhat with Aphrodite and Athena entering but Artemis is the third goddess contestant instead of Hera ( offering the one who chooses her the chance to be renowned as a great warrior ).

* According to Bopearachchi, his silver coinage begins with a rare series of drachms depicting on the obverse Athena and on the reverse her attribute the owl.

Two of the characters from Crystalis are subtle nods to earlier SNK characters who later became part of The King of Fighters series ; the latter two sages, Kensu and Asina, are based on Kensou Sie and Athena Asamiya from the Psycho Soldier arcade game.

In The King of Fighters series, Kensou is well known for his obsession with Athena, a quality demonstrated even in Crystalis.

Besides the Neo Geo series of games, they are notable for some stand-alone arcade games and home console ports of them, including Vanguard, Athena, Ikari Warriors, Psycho Soldier, Touch Down Fever, P. O. W.

Besides the Neo Geo series of games, they are notable for some stand-alone arcade games and home console ports of them, including Vanguard, Athena, Ikari Warriors, Psycho Soldier, Touch Down Fever, P. O. W.

* Lieutenant Athena, a character in the 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica

** Sharon " Athena " Agathon, a character in the 2004 re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica, based very loosely on Lieutenant Athena ; see Number Eight ( Battlestar Galactica )

* Athena, a fictional character in the TV series Stargate SG-1

* Athena: Goddess of War, a 2010 South Korean television drama series about espionage and terrorism.

** Athena Asamiya, a character in the video game Psycho Soldier and the The King of Fighters series, described as a descendant of Princess Athena

* Athena ( rocket family ), a series of light rocket boosters from Lockheed Martin

Richard B. Riddick ( played by Vin Diesel ), more commonly known simply as Riddick, is the antihero protagonist with a deuteragonist like additude of four films in the Riddick series, namely Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, the animated movie The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury and the upcoming Riddick ; as well as the two video games The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

* King of Fighters series ( Athena Asamiya, Foxy )

Maren Kawehilani Jensen ( born September 23, 1956 ) is a former American model and actress, best known for portraying Athena in the 1970s television series Battlestar Galactica.