Pallas (Titan)
Pallas ( ancient Greek Πάλλας Pállas ) is a titan from Greek mythology . He is the son of Kreios and Eurybia , his siblings are Perses and Astraios .
In Ovid he also appears as the father of the goddess Eos , in Kallistratos and Satyros as the father of Chryse , the first wife of Dardanos . With Hesiod he is with Styx the father of several deities who have to be regarded as personifications of aspects of war: Bia (“violence”), Kratos (“power”), Zelos (“zeal”) and Nike (“victory”). In Hyginus Mythographus these four personifications can be found in their Latin equivalents Vis, Potestas, Invidia and Victoria . In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes , Megamedes is named as his father and his daughter is the Titanide Selene .
Since Dionysius of Halicarnassus mentions Pallas , the son of Lykaos , as the father of Nike , he can possibly be identified with the titan Pallas as the deity who has sunk into a hero .
Pausanias reports that the inhabitants of the Achaean polis Pellene derived the name Pellenes from him.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Pallas 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1337 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Pallas in the Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hesiod Theogony 376.
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 2, 2.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae 11, 13.
- ↑ Ovid Fasti 4,373; Metamorphoses 9, 421; 15, 191.
- ↑ Kallistratos and Satyros in Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1, 68.
- ↑ Hesiod Theogony 382 ff.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 11, 20.
- ↑ Homeric Hymn 4:100.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1:33.
- ↑ Pausanias 7:26, 12.