Palladium
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Palladium the place
the Palladium · Athena's image · the heaven-fallen image
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Protrepticus
Sacred image of Athena said to have fallen from heaven but revealed by Clement's sources to be crafted from bones.
Many, perhaps, would marvel if they learned that the Palladium called "heaven-fallen," which Diomedes and Odysseus are recorded to have stolen from Ilium and deposited with Demophon, was made from the bones of Pelops, just as the Olympian Zeus was made from other bones, those of an Indian beast.
Rhesus
The sacred image of Athena kept in her Trojan sanctuary, stolen by Odysseus in a earlier episode recounted by Hector.
He climbed here to Athena’s sanctuary
One night, and stole her image clean away