Pallas was one of the Gigantes born of the blood which spilled onto Gaia when Cronus castrated his father Uranus.[1] Pallas confronted Athena during the Gigantomachy, where she killed him and turned his skin into a shield (the Aegis).[2] Pallas is sometimes referred to as being goat-like.
References
- ^ Hesiod: Theogony, 176
- ^ Apollodorus: Bibliotheca 1.6.2
