Turnus

In Roman mythology, Turnus was a chieftain of the Rutuli whose conflict with Aeneas is the subject of the second half of the Aeneid.

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He is the suitor of Lavinia until Aeneas arrives. This rivalry motivates the Latins to war against the Trojans.

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Latinus, the wise king of the Latins, 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 Juno). The outcome was that Turnus was killed and his people subdued. Turnus's supporters included Latinus's wife, Amata, Mezentius, the deposed king of the Etruscans, and Queen Camilla of the Volsci, who helped him fight Aeneas.

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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....

Rutuli: The Rutuli were members of a legendary Italian tribe. According to Virgil's Aeneid, they were led by Turnus, a young Italian prince to whom the hand of Lavinia had been promised by King Latinus. When the Trojans arrived in Italy, Latinus decided to give his daughter to Aeneas because of instructions...

Aeneas: Aeneas (or Aineias) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus in Roman sources). The journey of Aeneas from Troy, which led to the founding of the city that would one day become Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid. He is considered an important figure in Greek...

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