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. Latinus is also referred to as the son of Pandora and brother of Graecus
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Zeus.html . Their mother Pandora (named after her grandmother
Pandora), was the daughter of
Deucalion and
Pyrrha and sister of
Hellen.
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, Lavinius 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
Aeneas; Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas (at the urging of
Hera). 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.
Virgil VII, 45, 52, 69, 96.
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