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EVANDER (Gr. EvavSpos, " good man ")

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 959 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EVANDER (Gr. EvavSpos, " good 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.


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