Pallas (son of Evander)
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Pallas' body is carried on his shield back to Evander, who grieves at his loss.[7] However, Pallas' story does not stop there – at the end of Book XII, as Turnus is finally defeated and begs for his life, Aeneas almost spares him, but catches sight of Pallas' baldric, Turnus' fateful spoils.[8] This drives Aeneas into another murderous rage, and the epic ends as he kills Turnus in revenge for Pallas' death. There is an obvious similarity between the latter killing and Achilles killing Hector in revenge for the death of Patroclus in the Iliad.
A variant of the myth by Dionysius of Halicarnassus says that Pallas was the son of Hercules by Lavinia, daughter of Evander, rather than the son of the latter,[9] although, according to Silius Italicus, Evander's grandson born to Hercules was called Fabius.[10]
References
- ^ Virgil. Aeneid, VIII.514ff.
- ^ Virgil. Aen., X.365–425.
- ^ Virgil. Aen., X.426–438.
- ^ Virgil. Aen., X.453–489.
- ^ Virgil. Aen., X.496.
- ^ Virgil. Aen., X.815–830.
- ^ Virgil. Aen., XI.139ff.
- ^ Virgil. Aen., XII.940-end.
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.32.1
- ^ Silius Italicus, "Quintus Fabius Maximus", 6. 634.