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The term Latins has been used throughout history to refer to various peoples, ethnicities and religious groups using Latin or the Latin-derived Romance languages, as part of the legacy of the Roman Empire. In the Ancient World, it referred to the people of ancient Latium, including the Romans.
In Hesiod's Theogony, [1] Latinus was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrrhenians with his brothers Agrius and Telegonus.According to the Byzantine author John the Lydian, Hesiod, in the Catalogue of Women, considered Latinus to be the brother of Graecus, who is described as the son of Zeus by Pandora, the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha. [2]
A Natural History of Latin. Translated by Merethe Damsgaard Sorensen; Nigel Vincent. Oxford University Press. Leonhardt, Jürgen (2009). Latin:story of a World Language. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Harvard. ISBN 9780674659964. OL 35499574M. de Vaan, Michiel (2008). Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages. Brill.
Despite their frequent internecine wars, the Latin city-states maintained close culturo-religious relations throughout their history. Their most important common tribal event was the four-day Latiar or Feriae Latinae ("Latin Festival"), held each winter on the sacred mons Albanus ( Monte Cavo , Alban Hills, SE of Rome), an extinct volcano.
The name Latin was a common demonym among the followers of the Latin Church of Western Christianity during the Middle Ages. [1]The term was related to the predominance of the Latin Church, which is the largest autonomous particular church within the broader Catholic Church, and took its name from its origins in the Latin-speaking world which had Rome as its center. [2]
Lavinia, the only child of the king and "ripe for marriage", had been courted by many men who hoped to become the king of Latium. [2] Turnus, ruler of the Rutuli, was the most likely of the suitors, having the favor of Queen Amata. [3]
In today's world, a large number of Latin students in the United States learn from Wheelock's Latin: The Classic Introductory Latin Course, Based on Ancient Authors. This book, first published in 1956, [48] was written by Frederic M. Wheelock. Wheelock's Latin has become the standard text for many American introductory Latin courses.
The Prisci Latini are the colonists sent out by the Alban king, Latinus Silvius, who would be made to submit to Roman authority following the destruction of Alba Longa in the mid-7th century BC. [8] Those colonists would be a part of 30 villages that would form the populi Albenses which may have been related to the 30 Latin villages of the same ...