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PALLADIUM (Gr. sraXXit&ov)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALLADIUM (Gr. sraXXit&ov)  , an archaic wooden See also:image *agog) of See also:Pallas See also:Athena, preserved in the citadel of See also:Troy as a See also:pledge of the safety of the See also:city . It represented the goddess, See also:standing in the stiff archaic See also:style, holding a See also:spear in her right See also:hand, in her See also:left a See also:distaff and spindle or a See also:shield . According to See also:Apollodorus (iii, 12, 3) it was made by See also:order of Athena, and was intended as an image of Pallas, the daughter of See also:Triton, whom she had accidentally slain, Pallas and Athena being thus regarded as two distinct beings . It was said that See also:Zeus threw it down from See also:heaven when Ilus was See also:founding the city of Ilium, See also:Odysseus and See also:Diomedes carried it off from the See also:temple of Athena, and thus made the See also:capture of Troy possible . According to some accounts, there was a second See also:Palladium at Troy, which was taken to See also:Italy by See also:Aeneas and kept in the temple of See also:Vesta at See also:Rome . Many cities in See also:Greece and Italy claimed to possess the genuine Trojan Palladium . Its See also:theft is a frequent subject in See also:Greek See also:art, especially of the earlier See also:time .

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