Pallas (Greek myth) explained

In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: for male Πάλλας, gen. Πάλλαντος and for female Παλλάς, gen. Παλλάδος) may refer to the following figures:

• 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.^[4]
• Pallas (son of Pandion), the son of Pandion II, king of Athens, and father of the 50 Pallantides.^[5]
• Pallas, the father of Euryalus by Diomede.^[6]
• Pallas (son of Evander), a prominent character in the Aeneid.^[7]
• Pallas Athena, one of the epithets of the goddess Athena.

Notes

1. [Hesiod]
2. Hesiod, Theogony 185; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
3. Apollodorus, 3.12.3.
4. Apollodorus, 3.8.1.
5. Apollodorus, 3.15.5-6
6. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
7. [Virgil]

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.