“Sharing alone the strong keys that unlock
His thunder-halls.”
As Pallas possesses all her father’s characteristic qualities of wisdom and strength, so she is entitled to wield all his instruments, and even the thunder. Stan. quotes—
“Ipsa (Pallas) Jovis rapidum jaculata e nubibus ignem.”—Virgil, Æn. I. 46.
And Wakefield compares Callim, Lavac. Pall, 132. So the aegis, or shield of dark-rushing storms (ἀισσω), belongs to Pallas no less than to Zeus (Il. V. 738).
“. . . thou shalt hold
An honoured seat beside Erectheus’ home.”
Erectheus, who, as his name signifies (ἔραζε, Eretz, Heb., Erde, Teut., Earth), was the earth-born, or Adam of Attic legend, had a temple on the Acropolis, beside the temple of the city-protecting (πολιάς) Pallas, of which the ruins yet remain. The cave of the Furies was on the Hill of Mars, directly opposite.—See [Introductory Remarks].