god
Pallas
also: Pallas Athena, Minerva
Pallas Athena (Roman Minerva), goddess of wisdom and war and half-sister of Hercules through Jupiter; he begs her too to strike him down.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.77.2 Pallas
Pallas Athena (Roman Minerva), here watching the sea from a height; the verse line is a quotation whose source is not securely identified.
- Hercules on Oeta §368 Pallas's dances
Pallas Athena (Minerva), in whose maiden choruses Auge served when Hercules took her.
- Hercules on Oeta §1315 sister of Alcides
Pallas Athena, daughter of Jupiter and so Hercules' half-sister; he begs her spear.