[1] According to the mythographer Apollodorus, during the Gigantomachy, the cosmic battle of the Giants with the Olympian gods, he was flayed by Athena, who used his skin as a shield.
[2] Though the origin of Athena's epithet "Pallas" is obscure,[3] according to a fragment from an unidentified play of Epicharmus (between c. 540 and c. 450 BC), Athena, after having used his skin for her cloak, took her name from the Giant Pallas.
[7] Another of these flayed adversaries, also named Pallas, was said to be the father of Athena, who had tried to rape her.
[8] The late 4th century AD Latin poet Claudian in his Gigantomachia, has Pallas, as one of several Giants turned to stone by Minerva's Gorgon shield, calling out "What is happening to me?
Then his brother Damastor uses his petrified body as a weapon and hurls him at the gods.