Pallas

Look up Pallas or pallas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Pallas may refer to:

Greco-Roman mythology

• Male (Πάλλας, gen. Πάλλαντος)
  • Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena
  • Pallas (son of Evander), a prominent character in the Aeneid
  • Pallas (son of Lycaon), a teacher of Athena
  • Pallas (son of Pandion), the son of Pandion II, king of Athens, and father of the 50 Pallantides
  • Pallas (Titan), the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and husband of Styx
  • Pallas, the father of Euryalus by Diomede
• Female (Παλλάς, gen. Παλλάδος)
  • Pallas (daughter of Triton)
  • Athena, one of whose epithets is "Pallas Athena"

People

• Pallas (freedman), Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius
• David Pallas (born 1980)
• Janette Pallas
• José Ignacio Pallas (born 1983), Uruguayan football defender
• Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German naturalist
• Simon Pallas (1694–1770), German physician
• Theodoros Pallas (born 1949), Greek footballer
• Tim Pallas (born 1960), Australian politician
• Pallas, a wife of Herod the Great

Places

Finland

• Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, Finland
• Pallastunturi, a group of fells in Finland

Ireland

• Pallas, County Westmeath, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Moycashel
• Pallasgreen, a village in County Tipperary, Ireland

Art, entertainment, and media

Music

• Pallas (band), a British neo-progressive rock band

Literature

• Pallas (1993), book 1 in L. Neil Smith's science fiction-fantasy Ngu Family Saga

Manga

• Sailor Pallas, aka PallaPalla, a character in Sailor Moon

Astronomy

• Pallas (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
• Pallas family, a group of asteroids that includes 2 Pallas
  • 2 Pallas, one of the earliest-discovered and largest asteroids in the solar system

Birds

• Pallas's cormorant
• Pallas's fish eagle
• Pallas's gull
• Pallas's grasshopper-warbler
• Pallas's reed bunting
• Pallas's rosefinch
• Pallas's sandgrouse
• Pallas's warbler

Mammals

• Pallas's long-tongued bat
• Pallas's mastiff bat
• Pallas's cat
• Pallas's squirrel

Vehicles and vessels

• MV Pallas, a Dutch coastal tanker
• Pallas class frigate (1808), warship during the Napoleonic Empire
• Pallas, luxury versions of the Citroën DS, Citroën CX, Citroën XM and Citroën C6, automobiles built in France
• Pallas, a French Minerve class submarine

Other uses

• PALLAS, a research group working on parallel computing at University of California, Berkeley