Athos
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Athos may refer to:
  • Athos (mythology)
    Athos (mythology)
    In Greek mythology, Athos was one of the Gigantes. He threw a mountain at Zeus, who knocked it to the ground near Macedonia. The mountain became the holy peak of Mount Athos....

    , one of the Gigantes in Greek mythology


Athos may also refer to:

Places

  • Athos, a village in France, part of the commune Athos-Aspis
    Athos-Aspis
    Athos-Aspis is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It consists of two villages : Athos and Aspis.Athos is the birthplace of Athos, one of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. The fictional Athos is named after the...

  • Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

    , a mountain and peninsula in Greece containing an ancient monastic state
  • New Athos
    New Athos
    New Athos is a town in the Gudauta raion of Abkhazia, situated some 22 km from Sukhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, Psyrtskha...

    , a monastery in Abkhazia, founded by monks from Mount Athos

Fictional characters

  • Athos (fictional character)
    Athos (fictional character)
    Olivier d'Athos de la Fère, Comte de la Fère is a fictional character, a Musketeer of the Guard in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père....

    , one of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas (père), indirectly named from the village
  • Athos (character), Italian witch
  • Athos, a character in the video game Fire Emblem (2003)

Fictional places

  • Athos, a fictional planet in the novel Ethan of Athos
    Ethan of Athos
    Ethan of Athos is an English language science fiction novel that is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. It is an unusual item in the series in that it does not feature Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of almost all the other books.The name "Athos" for the main...

    by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Athos (Stargate), a fictional planet in the TV series Stargate Atlantis

Music

  • Athos (album)
    Athos (album)
    Athos is a 1994 album by Stephan Micus that was released on ECM.Based on a three-day visit to Mount Athos, in it Micus tries to capture his experiences with the Greek Orthodox liturgy he experienced in the monasteries there, framing it with pieces that evoke his emotions at going to and leaving the...

    , a 1994 album by German multi-instrumentalist and composer Stephan Micus
    Stephan Micus
    Stephan Micus is a German musician and composer, whose musical style is heavily influenced by his study of traditional instruments and musical techniques from Japan, India, South America, and other countries around the world...


Other uses

  • Athos 1, a tanker from which spilled 265,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River in 2004
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