Silvius

Quartigod posthumous son of Aeneas by Lavinia. Founder of the canonical Silvian dynasty of Alba Longa — the royal line that would terminate in Numitor, Rhea Silvia, and Romulus. Born in the Latin silva (woodland) where his pregnant mother fled fearing Ascanius's succession; the forest-birth aetiology cited by Livy 1.3.6 for the dynastic cognomen "Silvius" that became the standing patronymic of every subsequent Alban king.

Parentage

• father: AeneasVergil, Aen. 6.763-66 (primary)
• parent: Lavinia

Children

• Aeneas Silvius

Relations

• father: AeneasVergil, Aen. 6.763-66 (primary)
• mother: Lavinia (daughter of King Latinus, second wife of Aeneas) · RomanVergil, Aen. 7.50-57; Livy 1.1-3 (primary)
• half sibling: AscaniusHalf-brother through their shared father Aeneas; Ascanius/Iulus is Aeneas's son by Creusa.Livy 1.3.6 (primary)
• half sibling: EtiasHalf-sister through their shared father Aeneas.Pausanias 3.22.11 (primary)
• father of: Aeneas SilviusLivy 1.3.7; Dion. Hal. 1.71 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Vergil, Aeneid 6.763-66; Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 1.3.6-7; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.70-71; Cato, Origines (fragments) (primary)
• parentage: Vergil, Aen. 6.763-66; Livy 1.3.6 (primary)