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# King Latinus and the Conflict of Aeneas and Turnus in the Myths of Latium
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- Published: 2024-02-26T18:46:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:50:33.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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Aeneas, Latinus and Turnus (ENEA, RE LATINO, TVRNNO)

King Latinus, one hand resting on a round relief shield and the other on the hilt of his sword, stands before us, while Aeneas and Turnus, on either side of him, glare at one another in quarrel, the one with a dagger, the other with a battle-axe in his hand.

Latinus, once one of the principal heroes of Latin mythology, as the figure who gave his name to an entire people, gradually receded into the background. There is a version according to which a number of his originally attributed exploits were in the end ascribed to Aeneas. For the most part the legends of Latinus agree that he left Troy under the command of Aeneas and with a numerous retinue, founding his own state of the Latins, that is, the Latini.

Latinus or Lavinius is called now the son of Odysseus and Circe, now the son of Odysseus and Calypso, now the son of Zeus, now the offspring of Faunus and Marica, who received the army of the Trojans and Aeneas in his kingdom in ancient Latium, where the conflict between Aeneas and Turnus flared up. Aeneas and Turnus had fallen in love with one and the same girl, the daughter of Latinus, and because of the refusal to give her to Turnus, despite the betrothal already concluded, war was declared. Turnus suffered defeat. Aeneas remained to rule in those lands. His son Ascanius founded the city of Alba Longa, whose line of rulers ended with the birth of Romulus and Remus.