Lavinia

In Roman mythology, Lavinia was the daughter of Latinus and Amata.

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Latinus, the wise king of the Latins, hosted Aeneas' 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 Juno). 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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Aeneas and Lavinia had one son, Silvius. He named the city Lavinium after her.

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Roman mythology: Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. One part, largely later and literary, consists of whole-cloth borrowings from Greek mythology. The other, largely early and cultic, functioned in very different ways from its Greek counterpart....

Latinus: Latinus or Latinos in Greek mythology, in Hesiod's Theogony, was the son of Odysseus and Circe who ruled the Tyrsenoi, that is the Etruscans, with his brothers Agrius and Telegonus....

Amata: In Roman mythology, Amata was the wife of King Latinus of the Latins. When her daughter, Lavinia, was given to Aeneas in spite of her fiance, Turnus, Amata supported Turnus. When it became clear that Aeneas would win her daughter, Amata committed suicide....

Lavinia related Images and Photos (experimental)

Portrait of Lavinia and Ella Simpson c.1854

Portrait of Lavinia Fontana or Self Portrait of the Artist c.1595