Pallas Explained

Pallas may refer to:

Astronomy

• 2 Pallas asteroid
  • Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas
• Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon

Mythology

• 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
• Pallas (daughter of Triton)
• Pallas, an epithet of Athena
• Pallas, the father of Euryalus by Diomede

People

• Pallas (freedman) or Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius
• Pallas, a secondary wife of Herod the Great; her origins and fate are unknown.

People with the surname

• David Pallas (born 1980), Swiss footballer
• Janette Pallas
• José Ignacio Pallas (born 1983), Uruguayan football defender
• Maria Pallas (born 1993), Estonian swimmer
• Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German naturalist
• Paulí Pallàs (1862-1893) Spanish anarchist
• Simon Pallas (1694–1770), German physician
• Theodoros Pallas (born 1949), Greek football player
• Tim Pallas (born 1960), Australian politician

Places

• Blue Ball, County Offaly, Ireland, a village once known as Pallas
• Pallas, a townland in Durrow, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ships

• Pallas-class frigate, a 1791 class of frigates on the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• Pallas-class frigate (1808), a class of 40-gun frigates of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Empire period
• MV Empire Tulip or MV Pallas, a 1939 Dutch coastal tanker
• MV Pallas, a 1971 cargo ship
• Pallas, a French Minerve-class submarine
• Pallas, a Russian barque, wrecked in 1895 after grounding on The Gwineas in the English Channel

Other uses

• PALLAS, a research group at University of California, Berkeley
• Pallas (band), a British rock band
• Pallas University of Applied Sciences, a university in Estonia
• Pallas, a 1993 novel by L. Neil Smith
• Pallas, a series of luxury versions of the Citroën DS and other Citroën automobiles
• Pallas, an Estonian art society which founded the Pallas Art School (1919–1940)
• Pallas, the designation of a Citroën DS car model.
• Pallas Projects/Studios, a contemporary art space in Dublin, Ireland.
• Pallas, a genus of moths in the family Hepialidae

See also

• Hotel Pallas, a hotel in Muonio, Finland
• List of figures in Greek mythology named Pallas
• Pallas Athena or Athena, an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare
• Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, a park in Finland
• Pallasgreen, a village in County Tipperary, Ireland
• Pallastunturi, a group of fells in Finland
• Pallas's cat, a species of small wild cat
• Pallas's fish eagle, endangered old-world, (Haliaeetus leucoryphus)
• Sailor Pallas, a character in Sailor Moon
• Pallas' reed bunting, a species of bird