Daunus

Mortal Apulian-Rutulian king at Ardea in the Aeneid; husband of the Italic spring-goddess Venilia; father of Turnus and Juturna. The senior-Italic-king pattern that the Vergilian narrative requires for Turnus to inherit a substantial kingdom and command the Italic alliance against the Trojan settlement.

Children

• Juturna

Relations

• spouse: Venilia

Sources

• Vergil Aeneid 10.76, 12.22-23, 12.43-50, 12.93-94; Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1.49.2; Servius ad Aen. 8.9, 12.22