Rotation (mythology)
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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- Virgil Aeneid 7-12 passim
- Titus Livius Ab urbe condita 1,2,1-6
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1,59,2; 1.64.2-4
- Ovid Metamorphoses 445-608
- Strabo geography 5,3,2
literature
- Wilhelm Ehlers : Turnus 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII A, 2, Stuttgart 1948, Col. 1409-1413.
- Stefan Freund : The death of Turnus and Homer. Considerations at the end of Virgil's Aeneid. In: Virgil and the ancient epic. Festschrift for Hans Jürgen Tschiedel. Edited by Stefan Freund and Meinolf Vielberg . Classical Studies Colloquium Volume 20. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 67–84
- Lutz Käppel : Turnus 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 926.
- Peter Schenk : The figure of the rotation in Virgil's Aeneid. Contributions to classical philology 1641. Hain, Königstein / Ts. 1984
- Hermann Steuding : Rotation . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Sp. 1294-1296 ( digitized version ).