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 Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series.

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.

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

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

Also in 2003, Mercer went to Afghanistan to visit the Canadian troops stationed there ( See: Operation Athena ), resulting in the television special Christmas in Kabul.

After arriving in the city, she watches the battle doll Athena on a big screen television outside of Tokyo Station and becomes interested in learning about Angelic Layer, a highly popular game in which players ( called Deus ) buy and custom-design dolls known as Angels.

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.

Athena Starwoman ( 17 July 1945 – 16 December 2004 ) was a well-known Australian astrologer, columnist and television commentator.

Based on the American Channel One News, it saw the company Athena Educational Partners provide the school with free television sets and computers.

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 ).

* 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.

* 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.

** 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 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 )

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.

The adjectival epithet Areios was frequently appended to the names of other gods when they take on a warrior aspect or become involved in warfare: Zeus Areios, Athena Areia, even Aphrodite Areia.

Other myths say that Equuleus is the horse struck from Poseidon's trident, during the contest between him and Athena when deciding which would be the superior.

Odysseus ’ protectress, the goddess Athena, discusses his fate with Zeus, king of the gods, at a moment when Odysseus ' enemy, the god of the sea Poseidon, is absent from Mount Olympus.

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.

He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas.

Persephone was gathering flowers with Artemis and Athena, the Homeric hymn says — or Leucippe, or Oceanids — in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth.

His parents, George and Athena Kazanjoglou ( née Shishmanoglou ), emigrated to the United States when he was four years old.

Similarly, in later myths, Zeus would swallow Metis when she was pregnant with Athena, because of a prophecy that said she would later give birth to a son who would be more glorious than his father.

Myiagros was a god in Greek mythology who chased away flies during the sacrifices to Zeus and Athena, and Zeus sent a fly to bite Pegasus, causing Bellerophon to fall back to Earth when he attempted to ride the winged steed to Mount Olympus.

In the Odyssey by Homer, under the instructions of Athena, Telemachus spends the first four books trying to gain knowledge of his father, Odysseus, who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant.

According to the Bibliotheca, when Hephaestus unsuccessfully attempted to rape Athena, she wiped his semen off her leg with wool and threw it on the ground, impregnating Gaia.

While Bellerophon slept, he dreamed of Athena setting a golden bridle down beside him ; it was there when he awoke.

Vase-painters, when illustrating the birth of Athena from Zeus ' head, may show two assisting Eileithyiai, with their hands raised in the epiphany gesture.

In the anecdotal account, he found the instrument on the ground where it had been tossed aside with a curse by its inventor, Athena, after the other gods made sport of how her cheeks bulged when she played.

Tydeus was Athena ’ s favourite warrior at the time, and when he was dying she wanted to offer him a magic elixir ( which she had obtained from her father ) that would make him immortal.

He was planning to kill some more Thracians and stealing the chariot of the king with his armour when Athena advised him to back off for some other god may warn the Trojans.

This time, in Book I, the Goddess Athena disguises herself as Mentes ( son of Anchialos ), an old family friend of Odysseus, when she goes to visit his son, Telemachus.

Ares was just about to strike a hit at Heracles when Athena blocked his hit, saying that it was not ordained that he should kill the hero.

After the death of their parents, Aphrodite took care of Cleodora and Merope, Hera taught them to be proper women, and Athena made them accomplished ; but when Aphrodite went to see Zeus to get them married, storm winds carried them away to become handmaidens of the furies.

Mythologically, Lycabettus is credited to Athena, who created it when she dropped a mountain she had been carrying from Pallene for the construction of the Acropolis after the box holding Erichthonius was opened.