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According to Roman mythology, Amata / ə ˈ m eɪ t ə / (also called Palanto) was the wife of Latinus, king of the Latins, and the mother of their only child, Lavinia.In the Aeneid of Virgil, she commits suicide during the conflict between Aeneas and Turnus over which of them would marry Lavinia.
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]
Latinus was the son of Faunus, and grandson of Picus, the first king of Latium, who was in turn the son of Saturn. This was the most usual account, followed by Virgil in the Aeneid, and by Eusebius, but there were also several other versions. [12] [13] Picus was also said to be the son of Mars, rather than Saturn.
The Aborigines in Roman mythology are the oldest inhabitants of central Italy, connected in legendary history with Aeneas, Latinus and Evander. They were supposed to have descended from their mountain home near Reate (an ancient Sabine town) upon Latium, where they expelled the Sicels and subsequently settled down as Latini under a King Latinus ...
Titus Eppius Latinus (fl. during the reign of Trajan) was the first known Pannonian Roman member of the ordo equester. Origin ...
According to this, the Latin tribe's first king was Latinus, who gave his name to the tribe and founded the first capital of the Latins, Laurentum, whose exact location is uncertain. The Trojan hero Aeneas and his men fled by sea after the capture and sack of their city, Troy , by the Greeks in 1184 BC, according to one ancient calculation.
Latinus of Burgundy (c. 420–c. 500) was a 5th-century Duke of Burgundy. All that is known of the life of Latinus ( Dux Latinus Gontbado ) is contained in the following incident: [ 1 ] " A certain Domitian mounted his donkey and went to Torcieu, a village a league away.
Latinus, Nausithous, Nausinous, the Cephalonians In Greek mythology , Calypso ( / k ə ˈ l ɪ p s oʊ / ; Ancient Greek : Καλυψώ , romanized : Kalupsō , lit. 'she who conceals') [ 1 ] was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia , where, according to Homer 's Odyssey , she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will.