Athenais is an

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

feminine given name which refers to the Greek goddess

Athena Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretism, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarde ...

. Athénaïs is a more recent French variant. Notable people with these names include: *

Athenais (seer) Athenais () was a prophetess from Erythrae in Ionia, Asia Minor. She lived at the time of Alexander the Great. According to Strabo, Athenais was one of the oracles which claimed divine descent for Alexander the Great Alexander III of Mace ...

, 4th-century BC prophetess who told Alexander the Great of his allegedly divine descent * Athenais Philostorgos I (), Queen of Cappadocia *

Athenais Philostorgos II Athenais Philostorgos II (Greek: ''η Άθηναἷς Φιλόστοργος Β''), also known as Athenais Philostorgus II or Athenais of Pontus, was a princess of the Kingdom of Pontus, and queen of Cappadocia by marriage to King Ariobarzanes II P ...

(), princess from the Kingdom of Pontus and through marriage a Roman client queen of Cappadocia * Athenais of Media Atropatene (), princess from the Kingdom of Commagene and wife of

Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene Artavasdes is the Hellenized form of the Iranian name . Variant renderings in Greek include (), (), and (); in Armenian (); and in Latin or . Artavasdes' name is the Latin attestation of an Old Iranian name *Ṛtavazdah-, identical to the Ave ...

Athenais (daughter of Herodes Atticus) Marcia Annia Claudia Alcia Athenais Gavidia Latiaria,Pomeroy, ''The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity'' () otherwise most commonly known as Athenais ()Graindor, ''Un milliardaire antique'' p. 29 (c. 143-161) was a Ro ...

(141–161), noblewoman who lived in the Roman Empire * Athenais (great-granddaughter of Herodes Atticus), Roman noblewoman who lived between the second half of the 2nd century and first half of the 3rd century *

Aelia Eudocia Aelia Eudocia Augusta (; ; 460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to Emperor Theodosius II (). Daughter of an Athenian philosopher, she was also a poet, whose works include ''Homerocentones'', or Homeric re ...

(c. 401–460), birth name Athenais, wife of Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II * Athénaïs Michelet (1826–1899), French natural history writer and memoirist

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