Mercury fathered Evander upon the prophetic nymph Carmenta in Arcadia, and the pair later sailed to Latium, where Evander founded a settlement on the future site of Rome.
Pallas was the only son of King Evander of Pallanteum. Evander entrusted his son to Aeneas's care for the war against Turnus, and his grief-stricken lament over Pallas's body is one of the Aeneid's most moving passages.
Evander allied with Aeneas against Turnus and the Latins, providing Arcadian troops and entrusting his son Pallas to the Trojan hero's command in the Italian war.
Evander, whose settlement on the Palatine had suffered under Cacus's reign of terror, witnessed Hercules tear open the monster's cave and strangle him — and in gratitude founded the Ara Maxima to honor the hero.
Evander, the Arcadian exile who settled the Palatine Hill, established the Lupercalia in honor of Faunus at the site where he had founded his settlement Pallanteum.
King Evander welcomed Hercules to his settlement on the Palatine Hill after the hero slew Cacus. Evander established the worship of Hercules at the Ara Maxima, making it one of Rome's most ancient cults.
Evander recounted Mezentius's atrocities to Aeneas in Aeneid Book 8, describing how the Etruscan tyrant bound living men to corpses. Evander urged Aeneas to lead the Etruscans against their exiled king.
Evander, the Arcadian exile, established his settlement Pallanteum on the Palatine Hill before the Trojan War, giving the hill its name and making it the site of Rome's oldest mythological habitation.
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