Lavinia (Roman mythology)
In Roman mythology Lavinia is the daughter of King Latinus and Amata .
myth
She was promised to King Turnus . However, Latinus preferred to marry her off to Aeneas in order to fulfill such an old oracle that Lavinia should marry a foreign prince. When Turnus found out, he attacked Aeneas. Aeneas conquered and killed Turnus. Lavinia married Aeneas , with whom she had a son named Silvius . Her husband named the town of Lavinium after her. In Virgil's Aeneid she is portrayed more as a passive figure. Livy reports, however, that after the death of Aeneas Lavinia led the government for his still underage son Ascanius (Iulus).
Lavinia (illustration for De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio , 15th / 16th century)
reception
Lavinia appears in the literature:
- in Dante's Divine Comedy , Inferno, Canto IV, 125–126
- in De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio , a collection of (moralizing) biographies of famous women
- in the novel d'Énéas and thus also in the Eneasroman , based on motifs by Ovid and Virgil
- as the main character of the historical novel "Lavinia" by Ursula K. Le Guin , published in 2008 (Lavinia tells her life at the side of Aeneas)
swell
- Festus De verborum significatione 329.15-20 L.
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1,70,1-3
- Livy Ab urbe condita 1,1f; 1,3,2
- Ovid Fasti 3,633-648
- Plutarch Romulus 2
- Servius Commentarius in Vergilii Aeneida 1,6
- Virgil Aeneis 6,763, 7,50f; 12,194
literature
- Werner Schur: Lavinia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 1, Stuttgart 1924, Sp. 1000-1007.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Lavinia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Sp. 1918 ( digitized version ).
- Christine Walde: Lavinia 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , column 1200.
- Bernhard Kytzler : women of antiquity. From Aspasia to Zenobia. Artemis, Munich & Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-7608-1224-4 , p. 99 ff.
Web links
Commons : Lavinia - collection of images, videos and audio files
