Turnus
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Turnus was the legendary King of the Rutuli in Roman mythology, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.
Aeneas defeats Turnus, Luca Giordano, 1634–1705. The female figure on the left is Venus, Aeneas' mother, who supported him during the battle. The female character on the right is Turnus' sister Juturna, who was forced by a Fury sent by Jupiter (depicted as a black bird) to abandon Turnus.
Aeneid
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The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Written by the Roman po
Turnus
…Greek: Τυρρηνός, romanized: Tyrrhênós) was the legendary King of the Rutuli in Roman mythology, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid. According to the Aeneid, Turnus is the son of Daunus and the nymph Venilia and is brother of the nymph Juturna…
Manuscript circa 1470, Cristoforo Majorana
Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
Paul Cézanne, Aeneas Meeting Dido at Carthage, c. 1875, Princeton University Art Museum
Hawara Papyrus 24, with a line of the Aeneid (repeated 7 times, probably a writing exercise) that translates: "It is not the hated face of Spartan Helen..."). 1st century AD, from Hawara, Egypt; displayed at the British Museum, London