Call Me By Your Name: Athena and Pallas, Apollodorus III.xii.3

Huiusmodi de Palladio narratur historia. Aiunt natam Minervam, apud Tritonem, cui filia Pallas erat, educari coepisse: utrasque autem fuisse rei bellica studiosas, et in contentionem aliquando devensisse: Palladi iamiam vulnus illatum (Minervae) Jovem pavefactum Aegidem opposuisse: Palladem vero territam respexisse: atque ita a Minerva vulneratam concidisse. At Minervam eius de causa summo dolore affectam simulacrum illi simil confecisse, ac thoraci, pectorique eius, quam pertimuerat Aegidem, accommodasse, et apud Jovem honoris ergo constituisse. 

 ἱστορία δὲ ἡ περὶ τοῦ παλλαδίου τοιάδε φέρεται: φασὶ γεννηθεῖσαν τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν παρὰ Τρίτωνι τρέφεσθαι, ᾧ θυγάτηρ ἦν Παλλάς: ἀμφοτέρας δὲ ἀσκούσας τὰ κατὰ πόλεμον εἰς φιλονεικίαν ποτὲ προελθεῖν. μελλούσης δὲ πλήττειν τῆς Παλλάδος τὸν Δία φοβηθέντα τὴν αἰγίδα προτεῖναι, τὴν δὲ εὐλαβηθεῖσαν ἀναβλέψαι, καὶ οὕτως ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς τρωθεῖσαν πεσεῖν. Ἀθηνᾶν δὲ περίλυπον ἐπ᾽ αὐτῇ γενομένην, ξόανον ἐκείνης ὅμοιον κατασκευάσαι, καὶ περιθεῖναι τοῖς στέρνοις ἣν ἔδεισεν αἰγίδα, καὶ τιμᾶν ἱδρυσαμένην παρὰ τῷ Διί. 

--Apollodorus, Bibl. III.xii.3; Translated into Latin by Thomas Gale (1675)

This is the story that’s told about the Palladium.  They say that when Athena was born, she was raised by Triton,* who had a daughter named Pallas.    Both women eagerly trained in battle, and at one time, competed with one another in a sparring match. When Pallas almost wounded Athena, Zeus freaked out and revealed the Aegis**. Pallas looked upon it, terrified, and fell by Athena’s attack. Athena became very upset about her [death]. She built a cult statue*** that looked like her, and dressed it with the Aegis breastplate that had caused her so much fear. She placed it in Zeus’ presence and revered it. 

* Triton is a water god associated with Lake Triton in Libya [northern coast of Africa; et Pallas, Libycis Tritonidos edita lymphis, Silvius, Punica II.296]

** the Aegis is a breastplate that depicts a gorgon head

*** a xoanon is an archaic, roughly carved statue of a divinity.

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Name:   Date:  1st – 2nd c. CE Works:  Bibliotheca	REGION  UNKNOWN
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The Bibliotheca is a collection of Greek myths written between the 1st and 2nd century CE. Although originally thought to be written by the Athenian author Apollodorus (2nd c. BCE), it is now thought to be an epitome of a larger work written centuries later.	ROMAN GREECE