Pallantium was an ancient city near the Tiber river on the Ancient Italy Italian peninsula. Roman mythology , as recounted in Virgil s Aeneid for example, states that the city was founded by Evander of Pallene and other ancient Greeks sometime previous to the Trojan War . ref name viii Aeneid , viii ref This myth of the city s origin was significant in ancient Roman mythology because Pallantium became one of the cities that was merged later into ancient Rome , thereby tying Rome s origins to the ancient Greek heroes. Other cities in the area were founded by various Italic tribes . Virgil states that Evander named the city in honor of his son, Pallas son of Evander Pallas , although Pausanias geographer Pausanias as well as Dionysius of Halicarnassus ref Roman Antiquities , i. 31 ref say that Evander s birth city was Pallantium, and thus he named the new city after the one in Arcadia. blockquote The origin of Rome and the composition of its people are worthy of remark. They explain the particular character of its policy, and the exceptional part that fell to it from the beginning in the midst of other cities. The Roman race was strangely mixed. The principal element was Latin, and originally from Alba but these Albans themselves, according to traditions which no criticism authorizes us to reject, were composed of two associated, but not confounded, populations. One was the aboriginal race, real Latins. The other was of foreign origin, and was said to have come from Troy with Aeneas, the priest founder it was, to all appearance, not numerous, but was influential from the worship and the institutions which it had brought with it. br br These Albans, a mixture of two races, founded Rome on a spot where another city had already been built Pallantium, founded by the Greeks. Now, the population of Pallantium remained in the new city, and the rites of the Greek worship were preserved ... Lazio geo stub Ancient Rome stub fr Pallantium ... more details
he named Pallantium. Virgil states that he named the city in honor of his son, Pallas son of Evander ... of Halicarnassus ref Roman Antiquities , i. 31 ref say that Evander s birth city was Pallantium ... more details
File Carmenta Nicostrata.jpg thumb 200px Carmenta as Nicostrate Nicostrata For the genus of Lepidoptera , see Carmenta moth In Religion in ancient Rome ancient Roman religion and Roman mythology myth , Carmenta was a goddess of childbirth and prophecy, associated with technological innovation as well as the protection of mothers and children, and a patron of midwife midwives . She was also said to have invented the Latin alphabet . Background Image Plan Rome Servische Muur.png thumb Porta Carmentalis at location 12 The name Carmenta is derived from Latin carmen , meaning a magic spell, oracle or song, and also the root of the English word charm . Her original name was Nicostrate , but it was changed later to honor her renown for giving oracles. She was the mother of Evander and along with other followers they founded the town of Pallantium , which later was one of the sites of the start of Rome. Gaius Julius Hyginus Fab. 277 mentions the legend that it was she who altered fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet to become the Latin alphabet, which her son Evander introduced into Latium. Carmenta was one of the Camenae , and the Cimmerian Sibyl . The leader of her cult was called the flamen carmentalis . It was forbidden to wear leather or other forms of dead skin in her temple, which was next to the Porta Carmentalis in Rome, Italy Rome . Her festival, called the Carmentalia , was celebrated primarily by women on January 11 and January 15. See also Theodontius References Primary sources Ovid, Fasti i.461 542 Servius, In Aeneida viii.51 Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium i.10, 13 Secondary sources The Dictionary of Classical Mythology by Pierre Grimal, page 89 Carmenta The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan, section I.33.2 External links http www.paralumun.com mythroman.htm Roman Mythology http www.unrv.com culture minor roman god list.php List of Minor Roman Gods http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0598.html Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography ... more details
In Vergil s Aeneid , Erulus is a king of Praeneste . At birth, he was given three souls animae by his mother, the goddess Feronia , who also tripled his ability to defend himself by giving him three sets of arms. Vergil tells his story through the Arcadia n king Evander , founder of Pallantium , who allies with the Troy Trojan immigrants led by Aeneas . Evander regrets that the frailty of old age keeps him from fighting at Aeneas s side, and reminisces about the warrior deeds of his youth File Herakles Geryon Cdm Paris 202.jpg thumb 150px A Southern Italian amphora 6th century BC depicting the triple warrior Geryon, after whom Vergil may have modeled Erulus cquote If only Jupiter mythology Jupiter would give me back br The past years and the man I was, when I br Cut down the front rank by Praeneste wall br And won the fight and burned the piles of shields br I had dispatched to Hell ref Hell translates Tartarus . ref with this right hand br King Erulus, to whom Feronia, br His mother, gave three lives at birth a thing br To chill the blood three sets of arms to fight with, br So that he had to be brought down three times. br Yet this hand took his lives that day, took all, br And each time took his arms ref Vergil, Aeneid 8.560 567, as translated by Robert Fitzgerald . ref No other literary source mentions Erulus he may be Vergil s pure invention, based on the mythological figure Geryon , ref P.T. Eden, A Commentary philology Commentary on Virgil Aeneid VII Brill, 1975 , p. 155 http books.google.com books?id B7cfAAAAIAAJ&pg PA155&dq Erulus Aeneid OR Vergil OR Virgil OR Evander&lr &as drrb is q&as minm is 0&as miny is &as maxm is 0&as maxy is &num 100&as brr 3&cd 4 v onepage&q Erulus 20Aeneid 20OR 20Vergil 20OR 20Virgil 20OR 20Evander&f false online. ref or given that Feronia mythology Cult sites his mother s cult is represented only sparsely in literary sources, he may belong to an archaic tradition to which no other reference survives. ref Nicholas Horsfall, Virgil ... more details
About the saint by the name Lupercus Marcellus of Tangier the Patrick Wolf album Lupercalia album Infobox Holiday holiday name Lupercalia type Pagan longtype Pagan, Historical image Euander Pallene.jpg caption In Roman mythology, Evander or Euander was a deific culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War. He instituted the Lupercalia. observedby Roman, Pre Roman Civilizations date February 13 &ndash February 15 celebrations observances relatedto Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre Ancient Rome Roman ref this supports possibly pre Roman , which has been suppressed The Romans themselves attributed the instigation of the Lupercalia to Evander , a culture hero from Arcadia who was credited with bringing the Olympic pantheon, Greek laws and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War . ref pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa , an earlier origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February its name. The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greece Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia from Ancient Greek &mdash lukos , wolf , Latin lupus and the worship of Lycaean Pan mythology Pan , assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus , as instituted by Evander . ref Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Roman Antiquities 1.32.3&ndash 5, 1.80 Justin historian Justin , Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus 43.6ff Livy , Ab urbe condita 1.5 Ovid , Fasti 2.423&ndash 42 Plutarch , Life of Romulus 21.3, Life of Julius Caesar , Roman Questions 68 Virgil , Aeneid 8.342&ndash 344 Lydus , De mensibus 4.25. ref In Roman mythology, Lupercus ... more details
Pallantium in Arcadia he came to Catana and that he died there and was buried in front of the gate which ... page 181 ref and his poem Geryoneis included a description of Pallantium in Arcadia. ref Pausanias ... more details
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