Evander of Pallantium
In
In addition, Strabo mentions a story that Rome was an Arcadian colony founded by Evander.[2]
Genealogy
Dionysius of Halicarnassus also mentions that some writers, including
In the Aeneid
Evander plays a major role in Virgil's Aeneid Books VIII-XII. Previous to the Trojan War, Evander gathered a group of native Latins to a city he founded in Italy near the Tiber river, which he named Pallantium.[6] Virgil states that he named the city in honour of his Arcadian ancestor, Pallas, although Pausanias, Livy[7] and Dionysius of Halicarnassus[8] say that originally Evander's birth city was Pallantium in Arcadia, after which he named the new city. The reasons for Evander's fleeing his homeland are unclear; Ovid states that Evander had angered the gods and had been sent into exile by way of a trial[citation needed]; Dionysius describes a civil unrest in Arcadia which led to Evander and his people being forced to leave; the commentator Servius, however, recounts that Evander's mother persuaded him to murder his father, Hermes, leading to the pair being banished from Arcadia, although other commentators have it that Evander killed his mother. Evander settled in Pallantium where it is said he killed the three-souled Erulus, the king of Italy, three times in one day, prior to becoming the most powerful King of Italy.
The oldest tradition of its founding ascribes to Evander the erection of the
Because of their traditional ties, Evander aids
References
- ^ Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary at the Perseus Digital Library via the Perseus Hopper, version 4.
- ^ a b Strabo, Geography, 5.3.3
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 2.1
- ^ Silius Italicus, "Quintus Fabius Maximus", 6. 634.
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.32.1
- ^ Aeneid, viii
- ^ Ab Urbe Condita, 1.5.1
- ^ Roman Antiquities, i. 31
External links
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Escher, Euandros 1 in Paulys Realencyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaften, trans. into English