Daunus (son of Pilumnus)

Daunus is in Roman mythology, a ruler in Latium based Rutulians .

In Virgil's Aeneid , the only source of Daunus, he is the son of the god Pilumnus . He himself is the consort of the goddess Venilia and father of the Rutulian hero Turnus and the fountain nymph Iuturna . From Vulcanus he received a sword hardened in the water of the Styx , which his son wielded in the fight against Aeneas and was defeated.

swell

• Virgil Aeneid 10, 616 f. 688; 12, 22. 90 f. 785, 932-934.

literature

• Otto Rossbach : Daunos 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, column 2234 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Wissowa : Daunus 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 964 ( digitized version ).