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Encyclopedia > Evander

In Roman mythology, Evander (or Euandros) was a deific culture hero who brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Rome sixty years before the Trojan War. He killed Herulus. Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... A Pantheon (Greek: παν, pan, all + θεόν, theon, of the gods), is a set of all the gods of a particular religion or mythology, such as the gods of Hinduism, Greek mythology, Norse mythology. ... An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. ... The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... In Roman mythology, Herulus (or Erelus) was the son of the goddess Feronia. ...


Evander was born to Hermes and Carmenta and his wisdom was beyond that of all Arcadians. Previous to the Trojan War, he gathered a group of natives to a city he founded in Italy near the Tiber river, which he named Pallantium. Virgil states that he named the city in honor of his son, Pallas, although Pausanias says that Evander's birth city was Pallantium, thus he named the new city after the one in Arcadia. As the story goes, Hercules was returning from Gades with Geryon's cattle when Evander entertained him, and was the first to raise an altar to this hero. Later, however, it was destroyed by the blazing fire of 64 AD. Since he met Anchises before the Trojan War, Evander aids Aeneas in his battle against the Rutilians under Turnus and plays a major role in Book XII of the Aeneid. He introduced the Greek alphabet and the worship of Greek deities into Rome. He was deified after his death and had an altar constructed in his name on the Aventine Hill. Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles Hermés (pronounced HUR-meis; Greek: Έρμης: pile of marker stones), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and... In Roman mythology, Carmenta was the goddess of childbirth and prophecy, associated with technological innovation as well as the protection of mothers and children, and a patron of midwives. ... This article discusses Arcadia, a region of Greece. ... The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... Tiber River in Rome The River Tiber (Italian Tevere), the third-longest river in Italy (disputed — see talk page) at 406 km (252 miles) after the Po and the Adige, flows through Rome in its course from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea, which it reaches in two branches that... A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that... Pallas Athena. ... Pausanias was Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ... Hercules and Cacus, by Baccio Bandinelli, 1525 - 1534. ... This article is about the Spanish city. ... In Greek mythology, Geryon (Geryones,Geyron), son of Chrysaor and Callirhoe, was a winged giant made from three entire human bodies conjoined at the waist. ... Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s - 60s - 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s Years: 59 60 61 62 63 - 64 - 65 66 67 68 69 Events In Rome, persecution of early Christians begins under Roman Emperor Nero. ... Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi (In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ), commonly shortened to Anno Domini (In the Year of the Lord), abbreviated as AD or A.D., is the designation used to number years in the Christian Era, conventionally used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... In Greek mythology, Anchises was a son of Capys and either Themiste (daughter of Ilus, son of Tros) or Hieromneme (a Naiad and daughter of Simois, the river god). ... Aeneas (Greek: Αινείας, Aineías) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus in Roman sources). ... The Rutuli were members of a legendary Italian tribe. ... In Roman mythology, King Turnus of the Rutuli was an ancient king killed by Aeneas. ... The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills that ancient Rome was built on. ...


Pallas apparently died childless, leaving the natives to ravage his kingdom


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