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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.
Athena's epithet Pallas – her most renowned one – is derived either from πάλλω, meaning "to brandish [as a weapon]", or, more likely, from παλλακίς and related words, meaning "youth, young woman". [52] On this topic, Walter Burkert says "she is the Pallas of Athens, Pallas Athenaie, just as Hera of Argos is Here Argeie". [4]
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 painting depicts the story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the weaving contest between the god Athena and the mortal Arachne.In the original myth, Athena challenges Arachne and loses, but Athena punishes Arachne anyway for insulting the gods by not recognizing the divine source of Athena's artistic skill and for creating a more beautiful work than her own.
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 ...
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Palladium or Palladion (Greek Παλλάδιον (Palladion), Latin Palladium) [1] was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend, the wooden statue of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy and which was later taken to the ...
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 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.