Pallas

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Pallas may refer to:

Greco-Roman mythology

• Male (Πάλλας, gen. Πάλλαντος)
  • Pallas (Titan), the son of Crius and Eurybia, brother of Astraeus and Perses, and the husband of Styx
  • Pallas (Giant), a son of Uranus and Gaia, killed and flayed by Athena
  • Pallas (son of Pandion), the son of Pandion II, king of Athens, and father of the fifty Pallantides
  • Pallas (son of Evander), a prominent character in the Aeneid
  • Pallas (son of Lycaon), teacher of Athena
  • Pallas, father of Euryalus by Diomede

• Female (Παλλάς, gen. Παλλάδος)
  • Athena, who used the epithet "Pallas Athena"
  • Pallas (daughter of Triton)

People

• Pallas, a caste in India.
• Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and favorite of Emperor Claudius
• Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German naturalist who explored the Urals, the Caspian Sea, China, and the Altai. The common names of several mammal and bird species were named after him:
• David Pallas (born 1980)
• Janette Pallas
• José Ignacio Pallas (born 1983), Uruguayan football defender
• Simon Pallas (1694–1770), German physician
• Tim Pallas (born 1960), Australian politician
• Pallas, a wife of Herod the Great

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

Astronomy

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

Vessels and transport

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

Places

• Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, Finland
• Pallastunturi, a group of fells in Finland
• Pallasgreen, a village in County Tipperary, Ireland

Other

• PALLAS, a research group working on parallel computing at University of California, Berkeley
• Pallas (band), a British progressive rock band
• Pallas, a literary Science Fiction work by L. Neil Smith
• Sailor Pallas, aka PallaPalla, a character in Sailor Moon