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EVANDER (Gr. EvavSpos, " good man ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 959 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EVANDER (Gr. EvavSpos, " See also:good See also:man ")  , in See also:Roman See also:legend, son of See also:Mercury and Carmenta, or of Echemus, See also:king of See also:Arcadia . According to the See also:story, See also:Evander See also:left the Arcadian See also:town of Pallantion about sixty years before the Trojan See also:War and founded Pallanteum or Palatium on the See also:hill afterwards called the See also:Palatine . This is only one of the many See also:Greek legends adopted by the See also:Romans for the purpose of connecting places in See also:Italy with others of like-See also:sounding name in See also:Greece . To Evander was attributed the introduction of Greek See also:rites and customs into his new See also:country; of See also:writing, See also:music and other arts; of the See also:worship of See also:Pan (called See also:Faunus by the Italians) and the festival of See also:Lupercalia . In See also:Virgil he receives See also:Aeneas hospitably, and assists him against Turnus . Probably Evander was identical with the See also:god Faunus (the " favourer "), and the See also:tale of his Arcadian origin was due to the See also:desire to establish connexion with Greece; the name of his reputed See also:mother (or wife) Carmenta is genuinely See also:Italian . See See also:Livy i . 6 . 7; See also:Ovid, See also:Fasti, i . 471, v . 99; See also:Dion . Halic. i .

31-33; Virgil, Aeneid, viii . 335 .

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