84- Aeneid Part IV: War Unleashed, Destiny Forged

Now in Italy, Aeneas gets a new wife called Lavinia- and rivalry for her hand starts a war against the king of the Rutilians. Join us for more prophecies and visions of Rome than you can shake a stick at, Venus magicking shields into Aeneas' tent, and just whether Aeneas is an introvert.

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Time period: 1185 BCE

Relevant individuals:

• Aeneas, Trojan refugee and later 1st King of Alba Longa
• Lavinia, Queen of Alba Longa
• Latinus, King of the Latins
• Venus (Aphrodite), goddess of love

  
  

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ces for this episode:

• Drummond, A. 2015), Evander. Oxford Classical Dictionary (online) (Accessed 19/10/2025).
• Graves, R. (1981), Greek Myths: Illustrated Edition. London: Cassell Ltd.

• Moorton, R. (1988), The Genealogy of Latinus in Vergil's Aeneid. Transactions of the American Philological Association 118: 253-259.
• Papaioannou, S. (2003), Founder, Civilizer and Leader: Vergil's Evander and His Role in the Origins of Rome. Mnemnosyne Fourth Series 56(6): 680-702.
• Rosivach, V. J. (1980), Latinus' Genealogy and the Palace of Picus (Aeneid 7, 45-9, 170-91. The Classical Quarterly 30(1): 140-152.
• Virgil (1976), The Aeneid. Translated by W. F. J. Knight. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
• Wilkinson, P., Carroll, G., Faulkner, M., Field, J. F., Haywood, J., Kerrigan, M., Philip, N., Pumphrey, N. and Tocino-Smith, J. (2018), The Mythology Book. London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Battle of Actium (online) (Accessed 18/10/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Evander of Pallantium (online) (Accessed 18/10/2025 and 19/10/2025).

• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Latinus (online) (Accessed 18/10/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Janus (online) (Accessed 18/10/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Shield of Aeneas (online) (Accessed 18/10/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Temple of Janus (online) (Accessed 18/10/2025).

Incidentally, Aphrodite's Wikipedia informs me that the story of her cheating with Ares comes from Book VIII of the Odyssey. So, the reference for the Odyssey is:

• Homer (1983), The Odyssey. Translated by E. V. Rieu. London: Penguin Books Ltd.