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In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was one of the Gigantes , the offspring of Gaia, born from the blood of the castrated Uranus. [1] According to the mythographer Apollodorus , during the Gigantomachy , the cosmic battle of the Giants with the Olympian gods , he was flayed by Athena , who used his skin as a ...
Pallas, the son of Megamedes and father of Selene in some versions, perhaps one of the following. Pallas (Titan), the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and husband of Styx. [1] Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena. [2] Pallas, daughter of Triton. [3] Pallas (son of Lycaon), a teacher of ...
Athena kills and flays Asterus and uses his impenetrable skin for her aegis. Other accounts name others whose hide provided Athena's aegis: [181] Apollodorus has Athena flay the Giant Pallas, [182] while Euripides' Ion has "the Gorgon", an offspring of Gaia born by her as an ally for the Giant, as Athena's victim. [183]
Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena; Pallas (son of Evander), a prominent character in the Aeneid; Pallas (son of Lycaon), a teacher of Athena; Pallas (son of Pandion), the father of the 50 Pallantides; Pallas (Titan), the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and husband of Styx
Distraught over what she had done, Athena took the name Pallas for herself as a sign of her grief and tribute to her friend and Zeus gave her the aegis as an apology. [55] In another version of the story, Pallas was a Giant; [56] Athena slew him during the Gigantomachy and flayed off his skin to make her cloak, which she wore as a victory trophy.
The new building was not intended to become a temple, but a treasury meant to house the colossal chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos. [1] It is even likely that the statue project preceded the building project. [9] This was an offering from the city to the goddess, but not a statue of worship: there was no priestess of Athena Parthenos. [7]
The Suda in discussing Athena's epithet "Pallas" suggests a possible derivation "from brandishing (pallein) the spear". [6] The geographer Pausanias reports that Pellene, a city in Achaea, was claimed by its inhabitants to be named after Pallas, while the Argives claimed it was named for the Argive Pellen. [7]
Triton was the father of a daughter named Pallas and foster parent to the goddess Athena, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca. [c] [39] Elsewhere in the Bibliotheca, there appears a different Pallas, a male figure overcome by Athena. [d] [40]