Rotation (mythology)

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Aeneas defeats the rotation (oil painting by Luca Giordano )

In Roman mythology, Turnus is a king of the Rutulians , a tribe that lived in Latium .

He is mentioned among others by Cato , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Livy and Ovid . The most detailed account can be found in Virgil's Aeneid .

Turnus, son of Daunus and brother of Iuturna , wanted to take Lavinia , the daughter of Latinus , as his wife. But Latinus offered his daughter to Aeneas . When the war between Latium and the Trojans broke out, Aeneas killed Turnus in a duel.

Turnus is the central counter-figure to Aeneas in the second half of the work of the Aeneid . He is brave and brave, but embodies in his blind hatred the " furor impius " (godless, unscrupulous rage). He accepts the unequal duel with the youthful Pallas , then mocks the slain and robs the corpse of defeat . When he is finally defeated by Aeneas, he asks for mercy, and Aeneas is about to grant it to him when his gaze falls on the captured military walk that Rotus is wearing: Aeneas kills him in anger. The last verse of the Aeneid describes Turnus' departure into the underworld.

Turnus' supporters in the war against Aeneas were Amata , the wife of Latinus, Mezentius , the deposed king of the Etruscans , and the Volscian princess Camilla , daughter of Metabus .

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