The pure maiden whom Ovid names daughter of King Latinus and bride of Aeneas — the marriage for which Turnus fought and Latium went to war, in the Italian strand attested through Ovid's Metamorphoses rather than Virgil's Aeneid.1
Ovid makes Lavinia the prize of the Laurentine settlement. Aeneas won the daughter of Latinus, Faunus' son, not without war; Turnus, indignant at losing a promised bride, rallied a fierce people until both sides forgot dower and father-in-law's scepter and fought only to conquer. When Turnus fell and Ardea burned, the Trojan captain took Lavinia and the Latin kingdom — the westward kingship Homer had foretold among the sons' sons of Dardanus.2
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story