(2) Pallas is an asteroid from the main belt discovered in March of 1802. It has a perihelion of 2.13 AU and an aphelion of 3.41 AU. It has an inclination of 34.8º. It has a diameter of about 500 km. There are important observations in May of 1983 and September of 2007.
Greek mythology
Pallas Athena is the goddess of wisdom, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, female arts, crafts, justice and skill.
Athena competed with Poseidon to be the patron deity of Athens. They agreed that each would give the Athenians one gift and that the Athenians would choose the gift they preferred. Poseidon offered the first horse. Athena, however, offered them the first domesticated olive tree. The Athenians (or their king, Cecrops) accepted the olive tree and with it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food. (Wikipedia: Athena)
The eighteenth century is the golden age of tractates, of abstract speculations on the best form of government, justice, economy, moral, etc... (Raymond Trousson, 1995)
