Pallantias

A patronymic by which Eos (Aurora), the daughter of the giant Pallas, is sometimes designated.1 Pallantias also occurs as a variation for Pallas, the surname of Athena.2

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References

Notes

  1. Ovid. Metamorphoses iv, 373, vi, 567, ix, 420.
  2. Palatine Anthology vi, 247.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.