Directory
References
Discover
Lavinia
Roman mythology
Learn about this topic in these articles:
association with Turnus
- In Turnus
…is the favourite suitor of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus, eponymous king of the Latins. When Latinus engages Lavinia to marry Aeneas instead, the goddess Juno, who hates the Trojans, drives Turnus mad. He leads his people in a war against Aeneas and the Trojans. After many acts of courage…
Read More
place in the “Aeneid”
- In Aeneid
…marriage alliance between Aeneas and Lavinia, Latinus’s daughter; notable among the resentful are Latinus’s wife and Turnus, leader of a local tribe known as the Rutuli and heretofore Lavinia’s favoured suitor. War breaks out, but the Trojans, with the help of the Etruscans, prevail, and Turnus is killed. As fated,…
Read More