Lavinium was a port city of Latium, 6 km (3.7 mi) to the south of Rome, midway between the Tiber river at Ostia and Antium. The coastline then, as now...

The public cult of the ancestral gods of the Roman people originated in Lavinium, where they were also closely linked with Vesta. One tradition identified...

said of Alba Longa that it was founded by Ascanius to relieve crowding at Lavinium. He placed it at the foot of the Alban Mount and said that it took its...

Lavinium, on the west coast of the Italian Peninsula southwest of Rome. Roman writers regarded it as the original capital of Italy, before Lavinium assumed...

founding of Lavinium, Ascanius founded the city of Alba Longa and became its first king. He left Lavinia in charge of the city of Lavinium. Ascanius was...

claims that at one time the league included Tusculum, Aricia, Lanuvium, Lavinium, Cora, Tibur, Pometia and Ardea. During the reign of Tarquinius Superbus...

about 60,000. The town was built entirely new near the location of ancient Lavinium on land resulting from the final reclamation of the Pontine Marshes under...

Latins with a federal cult at the temple named Frutinal in Lavinium. Inscriptions found at Lavinium attest the presence of federal cults, without giving precise...

or City boundary. There was also an important Latin cult-centre at Lavinium. Lavinium hosted the cult of the Penates, or Latin ancestor-gods. Cornell suggests...

that from Lavinium, the worship of Vesta was transferred to Alba Longa, a belief evident in the custom of Roman magistrates going to Lavinium, when appointed...

laurel tree, was an ancient Roman city of Latium situated between Ostia and Lavinium, on the west coast of the Italian peninsula southwest of Rome. Lorenzo...

Funerary relief of an Archigallus from Lavinium, mid-2nd century AD, Capitoline Museums, Rome...

neighbours, and Libera, who was Liber's female equivalent. In ancient Lavinium, he was a phallic deity. Latin liber means "free", or "free one"; when...

Laurentum was an ancient Roman city of Latium situated between Ostia and Lavinium, on the west coast of the Italian peninsula southwest of Rome. The feminine...

city of Rome for a number of years, before Tatius was slain in a riot at Lavinium, where he had gone to make a sacrifice. Shortly before, a group of envoys...

Jupiter into a water nymph – a Naiad – and given by him a sacred well in Lavinium, Latium, as well as another one near the temple to Vesta in the Forum Romanum...

by force. Later, while both kings were participating in a sacrifice in Lavinium, he was killed in retribution.: vol. II, ch. 51–52  Dionysius also tells...

Indiges, singular in form, is applied to Sol (Sol Indiges) and to Jupiter of Lavinium, later identified with Aeneas. One theory holds that it means the "speaker...

Traces of occupation have been found in the general region – including Lavinium and the coast near Ardea – going back to the 15th century BC. The area...

referencing these deities are three small stelae (cippi) found near ancient Lavinium shortly after World War II. They bear the inscription: Neuna fata, Neuna...

of Satricum, Longula, Pollusca and Corioli. Then the Volscian army took Lavinium, then Corbio, Vitellia, Trebia, Lavici, and Pedum. From there the Volsci...

calendars—those of Numa—in the Liberalia and in the month of Liber at Lavinium) was derived from another deity. Such a derivation would find support only...

worshippers; at Évora, Portugal; Mount Algidus, also near Tusculum; at Lavinium; and at Tibur (Tivoli), where she is referred to as Diana Opifera Nemorensis...

Italy. An archaic Latin inscription of the 6th or 5th century BCE found at Lavinium, which reads Castorei Podlouqueique qurois ("To Castor and Pollux, the...

turn broadens in his Aeneid with the odyssey of Aeneas and his razing of Lavinium, and his son Iulus's later relocation and rule of the famous twins' birthplace...

Moulded Mithras slaying the bull, from Lavinium near Rome, 400 ± 50...

truth in what I presage." Aeneas is said to have named the ancient city of Lavinium for her. By some accounts, Aeneas and Lavinia had a son, Silvius, a legendary...

childbirth and motherhood. A legendary king Venulus was remembered at Tibur and Lavinium. Before Poseidon was known as the god of the sea, he was connected to the...

settlement of Lavinium, now 6.0 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the sea, and part of the nearby municipality of Pomezia. The foundation of Lavinium is mentioned...

by Justin). The Aeneid which is 12 books of the legendary foundation of Lavinium which explains that Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed...