Lavinia

Lavinia is in Roman mythology, the daughter of King Latinus and Amata.

Myth

She was promised King Turnus. However Latinus they would rather marry Aeneas, in order to fulfill an ancient oracle that Lavinia will marry a foreign prince. As Turnus learned this, he attacked Aeneas. Aeneas was victorious and killed Turnus. Lavinia married Aeneas, with whom she had a son named Silvius. Her husband named the city after her Lavinium. In Virgil's Aeneid, it is rather represented as a passive figure. Livy reports, however, after the death of Aeneas Lavinia had led the government for its still infant son Ascanius.

Reception

Lavinia appear in the literature:

  • In Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto IV, 25-126
  • In De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio, a collection of ( moralizing ) biographies of famous women
  • As titular protagonist of the historical novel published in 2008, " Lavinia " by Ursula K. Le Guin ( Lavinia tells her life at the side of Aeneas )

Swell

  • Festus De verborum significatione 329.15 to 20 L.
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1,70,1-3
  • Livy Ab urbe condita 1.1 f; 1,3,2
  • Ovid Fasti 3.633 to 648
  • Plutarch Romulus 2
  • Servius Commentarius in Vergilii Aeneida 1.6
  • Virgil 's Aeneid 6.763, 7.50 f; 12,194
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