Lavinium
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Lavinium was a port city of Latium, 6 km to the south of Rome, midway between the Tiber river at Ostia and Antium. The coastline then, as now, was a long strip of beach. Lavinium was on a hill at the
Gate into the interior of the settlement of the frazione of Pratica di Mare, a medieval walled village at the site of the center of ancient Lavinium. The structures in the photograph vary in date. On the left is the Castello Borghese, possibly the site of the Roman arx or citadel. The archaeological excavations are in a field off to the left of the photograph. The comune of Pomezia and the museum are directly behind the photographer.
Ex voto statues in the museum at Lavinium
Silver denarius struck by C. Sulpicius C. f. Galba in Rome 106 BC. The Di Penates depicted on the obverse were brought to Lavinium from Troy by Aeneas. The reverse depicts a prophecy from the Aeneid: "in the place where a white sow casts thirty piglets under an oak tree, a new city shall be built." A bronze statue of a sow was placed in the forum of Lavinium.
Aeneas
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Aeneas was a Trojan hero in Greco-Roman mythology, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite. His father was a first cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas a second co
Lavinium
…Dioscuri were being venerated at one of numerous altars. According to Roman mythology, which links Lavinium more securely to Rome, the city was named by Aeneas in honor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, king of the Latins, and his wife, Amata. Aeneas reached Italy and there fought a war against Turnus, the…
Iapyx removing an arrowhead from the leg of Aeneas, with Aeneas's son, Ascanius, crying beside him. Antique fresco from Pompeii.
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy)
Coinage of Aenea, with portrait of Aeneas. c. 510–480 BCE.
Venus and Anchises by William Blake Richmond (1889 or 1890)