TheHomeric Hymn "To Hermes" makes the moon goddessSelene (usually the daughter of the TitansHyperion andTheia), the daughter of a Pallas, son of (an otherwise unknown) Megamedes, which is possibly the same as this Pallas.[4]Ovid uses the patronymic "Pallantias" or "Pallantis" as another name forAurora, the Roman equivalent of the GreekEos ("Dawn"), who was the sister of Selene; Ovid apparently regarding Aurora (or Eos) as the daughter of (or otherwise related to) Pallas.[5]
TheSuda in discussingAthena's epithet "Pallas" suggests a possible derivation "from brandishing (pallein) the spear".[6] The geographerPausanias reports thatPellene, a city inAchaea, was claimed by its inhabitants to be named after Pallas, while theArgives claimed it was named for the Argive Pellen.[7]
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