Athenaeum

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Athenaeum, also Athenæum or Atheneum, is used in the names of institutions or periodicals for literary, scientific, or artistic study. It may also be used in the names of educational institutions such as Mechanics' Institutes. The name is formed from the name of the classical Greek goddess Athena (the goddess of wisdom) in the same way that museum is formed from muse (the goddesses of culture).

The Dictionary of Classical Antiquities defines "Athenaeum" as:

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The name of the first educational institution at Rome, built by Hadrian about 135 A.D.... There rhetoricians and poets held their recitations, and salaried professors gave their lectures in the various branches of general liberal education, philosophy and rhetoric, as well as grammar and jurisprudence.

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It may also be a synonym for "school", "academy" or "institution".

[edit] Some well-known examples include

• In the Philippines, the name "Ateneo" is known as the name for the educational institutions established by the Society of Jesus.
• The Daily Athenaeum (The DA) The official newspaper of West Virginia University
• The Athenaeum, official student newspaper of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
• The Liverpool Athenaeum, founded 1797.
• The Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
• The Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts.
• The Athenaeum at Caltech (California Institute of Technology), Pasadena, California, a faculty club opened in 1930.
• The Athenaeum in Chicago, a theater and performing arts center, opened in 1911.
• The Athenaeum Club in London.
• The Athenæum (Das Deutsche Haus), originally served as a gathering place for German-Americans in Indianapolis.
• The Glasgow Athenaeum, established in 1847, now the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
• Ateneum, an art museum in Helsinki, Finland.
• The Athenaeum Hotel in Piccadilly, London.
• The Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam.
• The Athenaeum Boekhandel (Athenaeum Bookshop) in central Amsterdam ([1])
• The Limerick Athenaeum, founded 1852.
• The Athénée de Luxembourg, secondary school in Luxemburg, founded in 1603.
• The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
• The Athanaeum Theatre and Library in Melbourne, Australia.
• The Nantucket Atheneum in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
• The Athenaeum in New Harmony, Indiana, designed by Richard Meier.
• The Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• The Athenaeum, Paris—an academic institution that existed in the early nineteenth century.
• The Athenaeum of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• The Portsmouth Athenæum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• The Providence Athenaeum in Providence, Rhode Island.
• The Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.
• The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, a National Historic Landmark.
• The Athenaeum in Columbia, Tennessee.
• The Athenaeum, Virginia in Alexandria, Virginia, home to the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association.
• The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.
• The Athenaeum Hotel at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauquqa, New York. (www.ciweb.org)
• (spelled as Atheneum):
  • Type of secondary school in the Netherlands, variant of Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs without Latin and Greek.
  • Type of secondary school in Belgium, providing general education (including Latin and Greek) and belonging to the official school network.
• The Atheneum Amcan School, a secondary school in Noveleta, Cavite, Philippines [2].

In the Spanish and Italian languages, the word Athenaeum is translated as Ateneo. Some examples include:

• The Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, an institution of science, literature, and arts in the Province of Venice, Italy.
• El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a well-known bookshop in Buenos Aries, Argentina.

In publishing:

• Athenaeum, the founding literary journal of German Romanticism
• Athenaeum (1828 - 1921)—a London literary magazine
• Athenaeum (1991 journal) (1991-), German journal
• Atheneum Books is a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster.
• Atheneum Publishers - publisher of political books.

In music:

• Athenaeum—a rock band from Greensboro, North Carolina—and their eponymous album.

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