A son of Pandion born during his father's exile at Megara, and brother to Aegeus, Nisus, and Lycus. When the brothers reclaimed Athens from the Metionids and divided Attica among themselves, Pallas held his share under Aegeus, who took the whole power; from that grievance grew the Pallantid claim to the throne that he and his fifty sons would press against Theseus.1
Pallas belonged to the second Pandionid generation, born far from Athens. When the sons of Metion drove Pandion from the city in sedition, the exile took refuge with Pylas at Megara and married his daughter Pylia, and there his sons were born to him — Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus.2
After Pandion's death the four brothers marched on Athens, expelled the Metionids, and divided the rule of Attica four ways; but Aegeus had the whole power. Pallas thus came into a portion of the land yet stood subordinate to his brother, a junior partner in a divided kingdom — the seed of the grievance his line would carry against the house of Aegeus.3
After Aegeus, Pallas and his sons rose in revolt against Theseus' succession; Theseus put them all to death.4
Apollodorus numbers the sons of Pallas at fifty, and reckons that once Theseus had slain them and all who would oppose him, he held the whole government of Athens alone — and with their slaughter the Pallantid branch of Pandion's house, and Pallas's claim to a share in the city, was extinguished.5
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