Athena is a 1995 novel by John Banville, the third in a series that started with The Book of Evidence and continued with Ghosts. In it a woman steps out of her lover's canvasses. It contains a character called Morrow. There is murder, art and Greek mythology. There is also a serial killer. Reviewers compared it favourably with the writing of John Fowles, William Gass, John Hawkes and Vladimir Nabokov.