Palladium
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Greek The sacred statue of Pallas
Athene that was said to have fallen from heaven. It
stood in the temple of Athene in Troy. According
to legend, Zeus sent the statue to Dardanus, the
founder of Troy. Trojans believed that the preservation
of the city depended on possession of the
Palladium. During the Trojan War, two Greeks,
Diomedes (1) and Odysseus, stole it, and Troy fell
to the Greeks. In another legend, Ajax (2) the Lesser
carried it off. The Romans said that Aeneas took the
statue to Italy. In fact, many cities claimed to own the
statue, among them Athens, Argos, and Luceria.
A rare metallic element is called palladium. It was
named after an asteroid, Pallas, discovered in 1803 at
about the same time the element was found.
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