Pallas (Titan)
| Pallas | |
|---|---|
| Genealogy | |
| Parents | Crius and Eurybia |
| Siblings | Astraeus and Perses |
| Consort | Styx |
| Children | Nike, Kratos, Bia, Zelus |
In Greek mythology, Pallas or Pallantes (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia, the brother of Astraeus and Perses, the husband of Styx, and the father of Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia.[1] Hyginus says that Pallas, whom he calls "the giant", also fathered with Styx: Scylla, Fontus ("Fountains") and Lacus ("Lakes").[2] Pallas was sometimes regarded as the Titan god of warcraft and of the springtime campaign season.[3]
Family
[edit]The Homeric Hymn "To Hermes" makes the moon goddess Selene (usually the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia), the daughter of a Pallas, son of (an otherwise unknown) Megamedes, which is possibly the same as this Pallas.[4] Ovid uses the patronymic "Pallantias" or "Pallantis" as another name for Aurora, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Eos ("Dawn"), who was the sister of Selene; Ovid apparently regarding Aurora (or Eos) as the daughter of (or otherwise related to) Pallas.[5]
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]
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See also
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Notes
[edit]- ↑ Hard, p. 49; Hesiod. Theogony, 375-383; Apollodorus, 1.2.2, 1.2.4. Compare with Pausanias, 8.18.1–2.
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae, preface.
- ↑ Daly, p. 109.
- ↑ Hard, p. 46; Vergados, p. 313; Hymn to Hermes (4), 99 f.
- ↑ Ovid, Fasti, 4.373, Metamorphoses 9.418, 15.191, 700; Frazer, p. 292; Keightley, p. 62; Vergados, p. 313; York, p. 39; Smith, "Pallantias".
- ↑ Suda s.v. Παλλάς (Pallas).
- ↑ Pausanias, 7.26.12.
References
[edit]- Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Daly, Kathleen N. Greek and Roman Mythology, A to Z (3rd ed.) U.S.A., InfoBase Publishing, 2009. Internet Archive.
- Evelyn-White, Hugh, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.
- Frazer, James George, Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid, Volume 4, Macmillan and Company, limited, 1929.
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360.
- Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Keightley, Thomas, The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, G. Bell and Sons, 1877.
- Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Vergados, Athanassios, The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes": Introduction, Text and Commentary, Walter de Gruyter, 2012. ISBN 9783110259704.
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Pallas" , "Pallantias"
- York, Michael, The Divine versus the Asurian: an Interpretation of Indo-European Cult and Myth, International Scholars Publications, 1995. ISBN 9781573090292.