Évandre

Évandre was the chief of a colony of Arcadie NS which was established in the Italy, around the mount Aventin. This prince there brought, with agriculture, the use of the letters, and attracted himself by there, and more still by his wisdom, the regard and the respect of the aboriginals which, without to have taken it for king, obeyed to him as a friend of the gods.

Évandre accepted at his place Hercules, and wanted to be the first to honor it like a divinity, even of alive sound; one raised with haste a furnace bridge in front of this last, and Évandre immola, in his honor, a young bull. Thereafter, this sacrifice was renewed every year on the Aventin mount.

It is claimed that it is Évandre which brought to Italy the worship of the majority of the divinities of the Greeks, which instituted first Saliens, Luperques and Lupercales. It builds with Cérès the first temple on the Palatine Hill.

Virgile supposes that he still lived time of Énée, with which he made alliance and that he helped of his troops. According to the same poet, Évandre sent his own son Pallas to help the Troyens of Énée.

Évandre, after its death, was placed, by the recognition of its subjects, with the row of the immortal ones: it accepted all the divine honors. Some mythologists are persuaded that it was Évandre which one honoured in Saturn, and which its reign was the golden age of Italy.

Random links: