Pallantium

Pallantium is the name given, in the Roman Mythologie at the city that the king Évandre, originating in Arcadie would have based on the Palatin and who would have been at the origin of Rome. Many old authors evoke the legendary figure of Évandre:

  • Denys d' Halicarnasse reports that Arcadiens carried out by Évandre " built a city close to one of the seven hills which is close to the center of Rome, calling the Pallantium place, of the name of their metropolis in Arcadie ". It further specifies this hill was close to the Capitole
  • according to Tite Live the Palatine one would have been initially called Pallantium of the name of the arcadienne city from where was originating Évandre.
  • Plutarque in its Roman Questions or its Vie of Romulus (XXI) mentions the figure of Évandre.
  • Dion Cassius takes again this account and gives the evolution " it accepted the name of Pallantium, in memory of the town of Arcadie which was called as follows: in the continuation, this name lost a " lamda" and a " nu" " , giving the Palatine name
In addition to this figure made it possible to attach Rome to a Hellenic genealogy, and to explain similarities noted between Greeks and Romans, it entered fully the design which had the Romans of their origins, a crucible of various origins, Greek, Etruscan, sabines and Latin operated under the aegis of the first kings, Romulus and Numa.

At the 19th century still, this legend was taken with the serious one.

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