Evander
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Roman Evander was the name of a
minor Greek deity from Arcadia whose history took
on mortal details when he fled Greece for Italy.
Evander was the son of the Greek god Hermes
and the Nymph Carmenta. He and his mother were
banished from Greece for killing his stepfather. They
settled in Italy long before the Trojan hero Aeneas is
believed to have arrived there. Evander built a palace
on the hill on the Tiber River that would become
the Palatine Hill. He was a kind ruler and taught
the native people music, religion, and, most notably,
writing.
Some scholars believe Roman poets of the second
and first centuries b.c. invented Evander to create a
link between Roman and Greek traditions.