An alternative and less commonly told story has it that Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

* 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.

It has been suggested that Hadrian was deliberately imitating Phidias ' famous statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon, seeking to draw attention to the temple and himself by doing so.

The next morning, awakened by the laughter of girls, he sees the young Nausicaa, who has gone to the seashore with her maids to wash clothes after Athena told her in a dream to do so.

This has created some debate about whether or not these " pyramids " are actually older than Egypt, which is part of the Black Athena controversy.

In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

As so often, it is Athena who takes the initiative in giving the story a new direction ... Usually the motives of mortal and god coincide, here they do not: Athena wants Penelope to fan the Suitor's desire for her and ( thereby ) make her more esteemed by her husband and son ; Penelope has no real motive ... she simply feels an unprecedented impulse to meet the men she so loathes ... adding that she might take this opportunity to talk to Telemachus ( which she will indeed do ).

Odysseus has now revealed himself in all his glory ( with a little makeover by Athena ); yet Penelope cannot believe that her husband has really returned — she fears that it is perhaps some god in disguise, as in the story of Alcmene — and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their wedding-chamber.

The torso of Athena in the École des Beaux-Arts at Paris, which has unfortunately lost its head, may perhaps best serve to help our imagination in reconstructing the original statue.

* The colossal statue of the Athena Parthenos, which Phidias has made for the Parthenon, is completed and dedicated.

Although Athena has previously told him not to fear any immortal, Diomedes displayed his humility by saying, " I will not fight any more immortals.

Though she was seen by Hellenized Etruscans as their counterpart to Greek Athena, Menrva has some unique traits that makes it clear that she was not an import from Greece.

Belisama was identified with Minerva / Athena and has been compared with Brigid

Some of the text has been found on the website dedicated to the museum of The Temple of Athena in Erythrae which can be found in the external links section of this page.

* Pylos: A bay in the Peloponnese, shut in by the island of Sphacteria, it is associated with Cleon's famous victory and there are many references to it in the play: as a cake that Cleon pinched from Demosthenes ( lines 57, 355, 1167 ); as a place where Cleon like a colossus has got one foot ( 76 ); as an oath by which Cleon swears ( 702 ); as the place where Cleon snatched victory from the Athenian generals ( 742 ); as the origin of captured Spartan shields ( 846 ); as an epithet of the goddess Athena ( 1172 ); and as an equivalent of the hare that Agoracritus stole from Cleon ( 1201 ).

On a late 6th century bronze plate from Miletus dedicated to the sanctuary of Athena at Assesos, the spelling "" (" to Athena of Assessos ") has been identified.

The origin of the name is uncertain: it has been theorized to come from Arvanite " Pliak Athena ", meaning " Old Athens ", or from the presence of a " plaque " which once marked its central intersection.

* Thena, another Marvel Comics character who has gone by the name Athena, a member of the Eternals

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.

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

The temple may have been burnt down in 406 / 405 BC as Xenophon mentions that the old temple of Athena was set on fire.

The Epidaurians had been accustomed to make annual offerings to the Athenian deities Athena and Erechtheus in payment for the Athenian olive-wood of which the statues were made.

Odysseus set out to rescue his men, but was intercepted by his great grandfather, Hermes, who had been sent by Athena.

The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.

The very few extant Lemnian inscriptions suggest that the Etruscans may have originated in Asia Minor, in which case subsequent syncretism between Greek Athena and Italic Minerva may have been all the easier.

Hypotheses have been proposed regarding its relationship with the Muses, the gods Athena, Poseidon, Zeus, Apollo, and the hero Perseus.

With the help of his son Telemachus, Athena, and Eumaeus, the swineherd, he killed all of them except Medon, who had been polite to Penelope, and Phemius, a local singer who had only been forced to help the suitors against Penelope.

Before this journey, Paris had been appointed by Zeus to judge the most beautiful goddess ; Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite.

Some 5th century torsos of Athena have been found at Athens.

He explains that worship of Athena was retained as a cult because it was too strong to be suppressed, but she was recast as a child of Zeus in new myths, even given the previously incomprehensible role of justifying what would have been a horrific crime against the old religious customs.

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas () is a central figure in two stories involving death: in one, he picked up the double flute ( aulos ) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it ; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.

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.

The 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.

After their return to Greece, and having been saved from dangers by Athena, she orders Orestes to take the Xoanon to the town of Halae where he is to build a temple for Artemis Tauropolos and let a man be sacrificed there during every festival in atonement for his own sacrifice.

According to a variety of sources of the legend, the Argo was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of 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.

Movable type traces its origins to the punches used to make coin s: the reverse face of a Tetradrachm Ancient Greek coinage | Greek coin from Athens, 5th century BC, featuring letters and the owl symbol of Athena.

According to other accounts, either he or Athena used the head to turn Atlas into stone, transforming him into the Atlas Mountains that held up both heaven and earth.

* MS Stockholm ( 1948 ), an ocean liner used by the Swedish American Line 1948 – 1959 ; collided with the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 ; as of 2008 sailing as MS Athena

The reverse features his dynastical trademark: the so called Athena Alkidemos throwing a thunderbolt, an emblem used by many of Menander's successors and also the emblem of the Antigonid kings of Macedonia.

The actual term was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin, but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites ( see Peter Frank, “ Site Sculpture ”, Art News, Oct. 1975 ).

Usages cited include the pattern of blue and white formations ( created from placing white metal layers on a blue surface ) on the shield of Achilles, the connection of the colors with goddess Athena, Alexander the Great's army banners, blue and white flags supposedly used during Byzantine times, supposed coats of arms of imperial dynasties and noble families, uniforms, emperors ' clothes, patriarchs ' thrones etc.

There was also a large sacrifice made to Athena, the hekatombe (" sacrifice of a hundred oxen ") and the meat from the sacrificed animals was used in an enormous banquet on the final night of the festival, the pannychis (" all-nighter ").

Many Greek people recognized the major gods and goddesses: Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes, Demeter, Hestia and Hera though philosophies such as Stoicism and some forms of Platonism used language that seems to posit a transcendent single deity.

Other current thinking would have the entire interior at the lower level and the East porch used for access to the great altar of Athena Polias via a balcony and stair and also as a public viewing platform.

* Hesiod: was based on DNS and used at MIT's Project Athena.

A caryatid supporting a basket on her head is called a canephora (" basket-bearer "), representing one of the maidens who carried sacred objects used at feasts of the goddesses Athena and Artemis.

Medusa was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield.

* The " Rondanini Medusa ", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena ; later used as a model for the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( 1798 – 1801 )

The X Window System originated as a joint project of Project Athena and MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, and was used by Athena.

Athena is still used by many in the MIT community through the computer clusters scattered around the campus.

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

More specialized third-party software are used on Athena for more discipline-specific work.

Pixar Animation Studios, the computer graphics and animation company ( then the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project, now owned by Walt Disney Pictures ), used most of the first fifty Project Athena systems before they went into general use rendering The Adventures of André and Wally B.

** Athena, who used the epithet " Pallas Athena "

The presence of numbers of these figurines on sites where worship took place in the Archaic and Classical periods ( c 200 below the sanctuary of Athena at Delphi, others at the temple of Aphaia on Aegina, at the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas above Epidauros and at Amyklae near Sparta, for example ), suggests both that many were indeed religious in nature, perhaps as votives, but also that later places of worship may well have first been used in the Mycenaean period.

The Tungsten T5, Tungsten E2 and TX used an Athena Connector also known as the multi-connector.