Pallantia

A daughter of Evander, was beloved by Heracles, and said to be buried on the Palatine Hill at Rome, which derived its name from her.1 Evander himself, being a grandson of Pallas, is also called Pallantius.2

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References

Notes

  1. Servius on Virgil's Aeneid viii, 51.
  2. Ovid. Fasti v, 647.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.