Latinus (King of the Aborigines)
Latinus is a king of Roman and Greek mythology .
He ruled over the Aboriginal people in Lazio . He is considered the son of Faunus and the nymph Marica and husband of Amata . He is said to have taken up the Trojans under the leadership of Aeneas and offered him his daughter Lavinia as his wife, while his wife wanted to marry the daughter to Turnus .
After armed conflict with the Trojans, nothing is passed on about Latinus' further fate, presumably he was killed or abdicated. Aeneas married Lavinia and Latinus became, according to Roman tradition, the ancestor of the Latins and thus the Romans.
According to another tradition reconstructed by Mommsen , Latinus is the son of Telemachos and Kirke . Romos, Romylos and Telegonos , the founders of Tusculum , descended from the marriage to Rome, daughter of the Trojan woman Rome, the author of the ship burns . This second tradition is evidently related to traditions relating to Latinus as the son of Odysseus .
literature
- Emil Aust : Latinus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 1904-1914 ( digitized version ).
- Francesca Prescendi: Latinus 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , Sp. 1176.
- Werner Schur: Latinus 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 1, Stuttgart 1924, Sp. 928-937.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Virgil Aeneid VII, 47; Servius Commentarius in Vergilii Aeneida I, 6; Arnobius II, 71
- ^ Theodor Mommsen: Collected writings. 4. 3ff. The reconstruction is based on Dionysius von Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1.72.5, Plutarch Romulus 2 and Festus 269 M.
- ↑ Telegonos is also the name of the youngest son of Odysseus and Kirke.