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At the beginning of the fight, Athena got the upper hand, until Pallas took over. Before she could win, Zeus, who was in attendance, fearing to see his own daughter lose, distracted Pallas with the Aegis, which she had once shown interest in. Pallas, stunned in awe, stood still as Athena, expecting her to dodge, impaled her accidentally.
Marcus Antonius Pallas (died AD 62) was a prominent Greek freedman and secretary during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Claudius and Nero. His younger brother was Marcus Antonius Felix, a procurator of ludaea Province. According to Tacitus, Pallas and Felix descended from the Greek Kings of Arcadia.
The Acropolis at Athens (1846) by Leo von Klenze.Athena's name probably comes from the name of the city of Athens. [4] [5]Athena is associated with the city of Athens. [4] [6] The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted to her worship. [5]
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
The Athena Giustiniani, a Roman copy of a Greek statue of Pallas Athena (Vatican Museums) Engraving from the Galleria Giustiniana, c. 1630–1640 (the first publication of the statue) The Athena Giustiniani or Minerva Giustiniani is a Roman marble statue of Pallas Athena , based on a Greek bronze sculpture of the late 5th–early 4th century BCE.