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Latinus or
Latinos was a figure in
Greek and
Roman mythology.
Greek mythology
In
Hesiod's
Theogony, he was the son of
Odysseus and
Circe who ruled the
Tyrsenoi, that's the
Etruscans, with his brothers
Ardeas and
Telegonus. Latinus is also referred to, by much later authors, as the son of
Pandora and brother of
Graecus(External Link
), although according to Hesiod, Graecus had three brothers,
Hellen,
Magnitas and
Macedon with the former being the father of
Doros,
Xouthos and
Aeolos. Their mother Pandora was the daughter of
Deucalion and
Pyrrha.
Roman mythology
In later
Roman mythology Latinus is sometimes the son of
Faunus and
Marica and father of
Lavinia with his wife,
Amata.
In
Roman mythology,
Latinus, Lavinius or Latium was a king of the
Latins. He hosted Aeneas's army of exiled
Trojans and let them reorganize their life in
Latium. His daughter Lavinia had been promised to
Turnus, king of the
Rutuli, but Latinus preferred to offer her to
Aeneas; Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas (at the urging of
Hera). The outcome was that Turnus was killed and his people captured.
Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, founded
Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings.
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