Pallas (Disambiguation)

• In Greek mythology, there are:
• Pallas the Titan, son of Crius and Eurybia.
• Pallas the Giant, son of Ouranos and Gaia.
• Pallas, son of Pandion, king of Athens, brother of Aegeus and father of the fifty Pallantids who opposed Theseus.
• Pallas, son of Evander, king of Latium, killed by Turnus, king of the Rutules and avenged by his ally Aeneas.
• Pallas, daughter of Triton, playmate of the young Athena, accidentally killed by the goddess who then made a statue in her image, the Palladium.
• Pallas, an epithet of Athena.
• In science, Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was a German naturalist and traveller who explored the Urals, the Caspian Sea, China and the Altai.
• In astronomy, 2 Pallas is one of the earliest-discovered asteroids.
• In history (I^st century), Pallas was a freed man, a favourite of the emperor Claudius. Pallas arranged his marriage to Agrippina the Younger and later helped her to poison him. Nero had him jailed and seized his vast fortune.
• In music, Pallas is a British progressive rock band.

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