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PALLADIUM (Gr. sraXXit&ov)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 636 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALLADIUM (Gr. sraXXit&ov) , an archaic wooden image *agog) of Pallas
Athena
 , preserved in the citadel of Troy as a pledge of the safety of the city. It represented the goddess,
standing
  in the stiff archaic style, holding a spear in her right hand, in her left a
distaff
  and spindle or a shield. According to Apollodorus (iii, 12, 3) it was made by order of
Athena
 , and was intended as an image of Pallas, the daughter of Triton, whom she had accidentally slain, Pallas and Athena being thus regarded as two distinct beings. It was said that Zeus threw it down from heaven when Ilus was
founding
  the city of Ilium, Odysseus and
Diomedes
  carried it off from the temple of Athena, and thus made the capture of Troy possible. According to some accounts, there was a second
Palladium
  at Troy, which was taken to Italy by Aeneas and kept in the temple of Vesta at Rome. Many cities in
Greece
  and Italy claimed to possess the genuine Trojan
Palladium
 . Its
theft
  is a frequent subject in
Greek
  art, especially of the earlier time.


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