In Roman mythology, Lavinia (/ ləˈvɪniə / lə-VIN-ee-ə; Latin: [ɫaːˈu̯iːnia]) is the daughter of Latinus and Amata, and the last wife of Aeneas. It has been proposed that the character was in part intended to represent Servilia Isaurica, Emperor Augustus 's first fiancée. [1]

Apr 9, 2025 · Lavinia is a charmingly prim and proper Victorian-sounding name which actually dates back to classical mythology, where it was the name of the wife of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who was considered the mother of the Roman people.

Lavinia is a Locus Award-winning [1] novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's last novel. It is written in a first-person, self-conscious style that recounts the life of Lavinia, a minor character in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid. [2]

May 7, 2024 · Lavinia is a beautiful feminine name closely linked to Roman mythology and means ‘the mother of the Roman people.’ Some also believe that the name has Etruscan origins. In its Latin roots, the name comes from Lavinium, an ancient town.

Apr 21, 2008 · In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice. In The Aeneid, Virgil's hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word.

Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552–11 August 1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting.

Lavinia is a 2008 novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. As her last novel, it tells part of the story of Virgil’s Aeneid from the perspective of Aeneas’s wife, Lavinia, who appears in the Aeneid as only a minor character.

Lavinia is a significant character in Roman mythology and literature, particularly known as the daughter of King Latinus and queen of Aeneas, the Trojan hero.

Dec 4, 2017 · In her novel Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series and many other science fiction and fantasy novels, gives life to a forgotten character from Virgil's Aeneid. Lavinia is the daughter of King Latinus of Latium, and in Virgil's epic she is destined to marry the Trojan hero Aeneas.

Lavinia. The daughter of king Latinus and queen Amata of Laurentum. She was initially betrothed to Turnus, the king of the Rutuli, but her father gave her in marriage to Aeneas. A grim battle ensued between Aeneas and Turnus, described in one of the last books of Virgil's epic Aeneid, ending with Turnus' death.