Pallas (Aeneid)
Pallas is a key figure in the epic Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil . There he is the son of the Arcadian king Euandros and his wife Amata and leads the Arcadian troops allied with Aeneas in the fight against the Rutulian king Turnus . He excels through great deeds in the fight against the Etrurian Prince Lausus. Pallas dies in an unequal duel with Turnus, who mocks the dying Pallas and robs him of his military service. This defensive walk turns out to be fatal in a duel with Aeneas at the end of the epic, since Aeneas suppresses his initial pity at the sight of Pallas' belt of arms and kills Turnus.
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literature
- Otto Höfer : Pallas 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1338 ( digitized version ).
- Lutz Käppel : Pallas 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Col. 197 f.