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. It may be a synonym for "school", "academy" or "institution". The Dictionary of Classical Antiquities defines "Athenaeum" as: | “ | 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.[1] | ” | Athenaeum may refer to: - Educational institutions, museums, libraries
In Australia: In Ireland: In Puerto Rico In Romania: In the United Kingdom: In the United States: - Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California
- Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- Boston Athenæum, Boston, Massachusetts
- Athenaeum (Chicago), theater and performing arts center
- Howard Athenaeum, theater in Boston, Massachusetts
- Athenæum (Das Deutsche Haus), Indianapolis
- Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket, Massachusetts
- New Harmony's Atheneum, New Harmony, Indiana
- Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Portsmouth Athenæum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- Providence Athenaeum, Providence, Rhode Island
- Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island
- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
- Athenaeum (Tennessee), Columbia, Tennessee
- Athenaeum, Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia
- Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- The Athenaeum, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland
- The Atheneum, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
In Venezuela: - Newspapers and magazines
- Clubs and societies
- Athenaeum at Caltech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- Liverpool Athenaeum, Liverpool, England
- Athenaeum Club, London, England
- Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California
- Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, Australia
- Cambridge Athenaeum, University of Cambridge, England
- Schools and colleges
- Athenaeum (ancient Rome), school founded by Emperor Hadrian
- Glasgow Athenaeum, now the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
- Athenaeum Illustre, Amsterdam
- Athenaeum of Ohio, seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Athenaeum, Paris, France, an academic institution that existed in the early nineteenth century
- Atheneum is a type of secondary school in the Netherlands, a variant of the Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs without Latin and Greek
- Atheneum is a type of secondary school in Belgium, providing general education (including Latin and Greek) and belonging to the official school network
- Hotels
- Other
- Atheneum Books, formerly a publisher of political books, now a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster
- Athenaeum (band), rock band from Greensboro, North Carolina
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