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In Greek mythology, there are several male and female deities named "Pallas," as well as a mortal prince. Download high resolution version (374x649, 77 KB)Classical Statue of Pallas, photo-engraving from 1899 book Original caption: PALLAS. Photo-engraving from the original marble statue in the Vatican at Rome. ... Download high resolution version (374x649, 77 KB)Classical Statue of Pallas, photo-engraving from 1899 book Original caption: PALLAS. Photo-engraving from the original marble statue in the Vatican at Rome. ... In Greek mythology, Pallas may refer to: Pallas, a Titan and son of Crius and Eurybia Pallas (Giant), a Giant and the son of Uranus and Gaia Pallas (son of Pandion), the son of Pandion II, king of Athens, and father of the fifty Pallantids Pallas (son of Evander), the... // Greek mythology consists in part of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ...

One Pallas was an epithet for Athena. According to some sources, Pallas was the playmate of Athena, a daughter of the god Triton (or Tritonis), her foster-father. One day, while Pallas and Athena were sparring, Zeus appeared between them with the aegis and Pallas, in her fear, forgot to parry a blow from Athena. She was killed and Athena mourned her by becoming "Pallas Athena". She also carved from a tree trunk a statue of Pallas, the Palladium, which she left with Zeus. Later Electra, whom Zeus seduced, took refuge behind this palladium; Zeus tossed it away and it fell on the land of Ilium (Troy), where Ilus had a temple built for it. Other sources claim that Pallas was an older local god conflated with Athena by the Athenians.^[1] An epithet (Greek - επιθετον and Latin - epitheton; literally meaning imposed) is a descriptive word or phrase. ... Helmeted Athena, of the Velletri type. ... Helmeted Athena, of the Velletri type. ... In Greek mythology, Triton is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the personification of the roaring waters, represented as having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish. ... Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in Ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th century engraving In Greek mythology, Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Ζεύς Zeús, genitive: Διός Díos) is... The ægis (Gr. ... A Roman copy of a Greek statue of Pallas. ... Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra): A Pleiad, mother of Dardanus, Iasion and Harmonia, by Zeus. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy Troy (Ancient Greek Τροία Troia, also Ίλιον Ilion; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Trojan War cycle, especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. ... Ilus son of Tros Ilus (Ilos in Greek) is in Greek mythology the founder of the city called Ilion (Latinized as Ilium) to which he gave his name. ...

Pallas was also a Titan, son of Crius and Eurybia, husband of Styx. He was the father of Zelus, Nike, Cratos, and Bia (and sometimes, Eos and Selene). This Pallas was the god of wisdom. Aeson or Aethon was the name of his horse. In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek Τιτάν, plural Τιτάνες) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. ... In Greek mythology, Crius was one of the Titans, a son of Uranus and Gaia. ... In Greek mythology, Eurybia was married to the titan Crius and gave birth to three known offspring Astraios, Perses, and Pallas. ... In Greek mythology, Styx (Στυξ) is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworld, Hades. ... This Zelos is the Greek personification. ... This article discusses the Greek Goddess. ... In Greek mythology, Cratos (strength) was a son of Styx and Pallas, brother of Nike, Bia and Zelus. ... In Greek mythology, Bia (force) was the personification of force, daughter of Pallas and Styx. ... Eos, by Evelyn De Morgan (1850 - 1919), 1895 (Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC): for a Pre-Raphaelite painter, Eos was still the classical pagan equivalent of an angel Eos (dawn) was, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of... SELENE SELENE is a Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft currently in integration. ... God is the deity believed by monotheists to be the supreme reality. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with philosophy. ... In Greek mythology, Aeson (or Aison) was the son of Tyro and Cretheus, father of Jason and Promachus. ... In Greek mythology and Roman mythology there are three characters known as Aethon According to Ovid (II, 153), one of Helios horses. ...

An archaic winged god is also named Pallas, with wings attached either to the ankles or to his back, like the archaic winged goddesses. He was, according to one tradition, the father of Pallas Athena and tried to rape her. She killed him and tore his skin off to make the Aegis.

Yet another Pallas, a goatish Giant, confronted Athena during the Gigantomachy; she killed him and also turned his skin into the aegis. The mythology and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. ... Dionysos attacking a Giant during the Gigantomachia, Attic red-figure pelike, ca. ...

Pallas is also the mortal son of the Arcadian king Evander, who valiantly dies at the unmerciful hand of Turnus in the Aeneid. This article discusses Arcadia, a region of Greece. ... In Roman mythology, Evander (or Euandros) was a deific culture hero who brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Rome sixty years before the Trojan War. ... In Vergils Aeneid , Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas. ... For the group of nine Ancient Egyptian deities, see Ennead. ...

The last Pallas is the son of Lycaon and founder of the Arcadian town of Pallantion. He was the teacher of Athena, yet also the father of Nike and Chryse, two manifestations of Athena. The incest motif appears yet again, in the form of a consummated marriage between her and her teacher. Lycaon, in Greek mythology, was a son of Priam and Laothoe. ... Arcadia or Arkadía (Greek Αρκαδία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. ... This article is about the people and places of Greek myth. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

"Pallas" is also mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. This "Pallas" in The Raven refers to a statue of the head of Athena, God of wisdom and reason, who the Raven (a symbol of guilt, depression, sadness, and insanity) haughtily perches upon. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

"...But, with mien of lord or lady,
perched above my chamber door
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door
Perched, and sat, and nothing more."

Notes

The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group indigenous to the Maghreb, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. ... Helmeted Athena, of the Velletri type. ... Neith In Egyptian mythology, Neith (also known as Nit, Net and Neit) was a psychopomp, a goddess of war and the hunt and the patron deity of Sais, in the Western Delta. ...

References

• Apollodorus, Apollodorus: The Library, translated by Frazer, Sir James George (1921), two volumes, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press and London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Volume 1: ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Volume 2: ISBN 0-674-99136-2.