As the story goes in some Greek mythology, Pallas was childhood friends with Athena, goddess of war, art, and wisdom. The two were playing a mock battle, as you do when you grow up in a family with such lineage, when Athena accidentally killed Pallas. In an act of grievance for her friend, Athena took Pallas’s name in honor, and is known in some Greek mythology as Pallas-Athena.