Palladium Greek The sacred statue of Pallas Athene that was said to have fallen from heaven.
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Palladium 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.
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- Homer I INTRODUCTION Homer, the name traditionally assigned to the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two major epics that have survived from Greek antiquity.
- Omphal os (Navel) Greek The stone swallowed by Cronus, one of the Titans, thinking that it was his son Zeus.
- Pallas Athene Greek One of the many names of the goddess Athene.
- Psyche (Soul) Greek A mortal woman so beautiful that the goddess Aphrodite was jealous of her and ordered Eros to punish her.
- Crius (Krios) Greek A first-generation Titan; son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth); with Eurybia, a daughter of Pontus and Gaia, the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses.