EVANDER (Gr. EvavSpos, "

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• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

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• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

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

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