She put the baby in a basket and entrusted it to the daughters of Cecrops with strict instructions not to open it, then went to Pallene to get a rock that would form the foundations of a temple for her on the Acropolis.
As she carried it back, a crow told her that the daughters of Cecrops had opened the basket and, in her rage, she dropped the rock on the ground, where it remains as Mount Lycabettus.
[2] At a later stage, Eurystheus died fighting against the Athenians and Heracleidae at Pallene and was buried in front of the temple of Athena Pallenis.
[10] This location at the meeting point of several roads from the Mesogaea to Athens made Pallene strategically significant, and often occupied in military operations.
[13] In one of the churches nearby, George Finlay found an inscription referring to one "Xeophanes of Pallene" (ΞΕΟΦΑΝΗΣ ΠΑΛΛΗΝΕΥΣ).