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In later Roman mythology Latinus is sometimes the son of Faunus and Marica and father of Lavinia with his wife, Amata.

In Roman mythology, Latinus or Latium was a king of the Latins. He 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 AeneasAeneas or Aineas was a famous Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, father of Ascanius with Creusa, and one of the most important figures in Greek and Roman legendary history. In Homer's stories, he is represented as the chief bulwark of the Trojans; Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas (at the urging of HeraThis article is about the goddess. For the asteroid, see 103 Hera, and also 1 Ceres, which briefly bore the name Hera. In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera the Great Goddess of pre- Hellene Minoan culture transmitted to the Greeks t). The outcome was that Turnus was killed and his people captured. AscaniusIn Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was a son of Aeneas and Creusa. After the Trojan War, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy with his father and fought in the Italian Wars. Virgil's Aeneid says he had a role in the founding of Rome as the first king of, the son of Aeneas, founded Albalonga and was the first in a long series of kings.

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