Urania (disambiguation)
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- Aphrodite Urania, a title for the Greek goddess Aphrodite, as opposed to Aphrodite Pandemos
- Urania, an Oceanid
- Urania, one of the female dogs of the hunter Actaeon. Like the rest of the pack, she also devoured her master when he was transformed into a stag by Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
Awards
- Urania Award, an Italian science fiction award
- Urania Awards (film), a set of awards given at the Let's CEE Film Festival in Vienna, Austria (2012-2018)
People
- Urania Marquard Olsen (1856–1932), Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director
- Urania Papatheu (born 1965), Italian politician
- Julia Urania, wife of Roman client King Ptolemy of Mauretania
Places
- Urânia, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
- Urania, Louisiana, a town in the United States
- Urania, Michigan, a former community
- Urania, South Australia, a locality in the Yorke Peninsula Council
Publications
Magazines and journals
- Urania, a German science magazine published by Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse
- Urania (journal), a genderqueer feminist journal circulated between 1916 and 1940
- Urania (magazine), a number of science fiction magazines
- Urania - Postępy Astronomii, a Polish popular science magazine
Literature
- The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621), a work by Lady Mary Wroth
- Urania (original title Uranie), 1889 work by Camille Flammarion
- Urania, a poem by Samuel Austin
