Pallas (son of Pandion)

In Greek mythology, Pallas (Ancient Greek: Πάλλας) was one of the four sons of Pandion II and Pylia. Upon the death of Pandion, Pallas and his brothers (Aegeas, Nisos, and Lykos) took control of Athens from Metion, who had seized the throne from Pandion. They divided the government in four but Aegeas became king.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 15. 5 - 6 Pallas received ParaliaStrabo, Geography, 9. 1. 6, quoting SophoclesSuda s. v. Paralōn or DiacriaStephanus of Byzantium s. v. Diakria as his domain, or else he shared the power over several demes with Aegeus.Scholia on Euripides, Hippolytus, 35 Later, after the death of Aegeas, Pallas tried to take the throne from the rightful heir, his nephew, Theseus, but failed and was killed by him,Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 22. 2; 1. 28. 10Hyginus, Fabulae, 244 and so were his fifty children, the Pallantides.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, Epitome of Book 4, 1. 11Plutarch, Life of Theseus, 13
In a version endorsed by Servius, Pallas was not a brother, but a son of Aegeus, and thus a brother of Theseus, by whom he was expelled from Attica. He then came to Arcadia, where he became king and founded a dynasty to which Evander of Pallene and another Pallas belonged.Servius on Aeneid, 8. 54
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