Turnus
Sign in to savethumb|325px|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.]]
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- Historical tradition
- Virgil's ''Aeneid''
- In later literature
- Interpretation
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thumb|325px|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.]]
Turnus () was the legendary King of the Rutuli in Roman history, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turnus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.