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Énée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia) is an opera by the French composer Pascal Collasse, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 7 November 1690. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in a prologue and five acts.
Lavinia from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Lavinia at the Altar (c. 1565) by Mirabello Cavalori, depicting the moment at which Lavinia's hair blazes as an omen of war but ultimate reconciliation. In Roman mythology, Lavinia (/ l ə ˈ v ɪ n i ə / lə-VIN-ee-ə; Latin: [ɫaːˈu̯iːnia]) is the daughter of Latinus and Amata, and the last ...
Énée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia) is an opera by the French composer Antoine Dauvergne, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 14 February 1758. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in five acts.
The kings of Alba Longa, or Alban kings (Latin: reges Albani), were a series of legendary kings of Latium, who ruled from the ancient city of Alba Longa.In the mythic tradition of ancient Rome, they fill the 400-year gap between the settlement of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city of Rome by Romulus. [1]
According to Roman mythology, which links Lavinium more securely to Rome, the city was named by Aeneas [3] in honor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, king of the Latins, and his wife, Amata. [4] [5] Aeneas reached Italy and there fought a war against Turnus, the leader of the local Rutuli people.
Lavinia is a Locus Award-winning [1] novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's last novel. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's last novel. It is written in a first-person, self-conscious style that recounts the life of Lavinia , a minor character in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid .
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The boy Ascanius weeps and Venus hovers nearby as the physician Iapyx treats the wound of Aeneas (wall painting from Pompeii, 1st century AD). Ascanius (/ ə ˈ s k eɪ n i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάνιος) [1] was a legendary king of Alba Longa (1176-1138 BC) and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas and Creusa, daughter of Priam.