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See also: Roman See also: legend, son of 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 War and founded Pallanteum or Palatium on the See also: hill afterwards called the 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-sounding name in See also: Greece
.
To Evander was attributed the introduction of Greek See also: rites and customs into his new country; of writing, See also: music and other arts; of the worship of See also: Pan (called Faunus by the Italians) and the festival of See also: Lupercalia
.
In 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 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
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7; Ovid, See also: Fasti, i
.
471, v
.
99; See also: Dion
.
Halic. i
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31-33; Virgil, Aeneid, viii . 335 . |
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