![]() ![]() ), and she approaches Lavinia’s world, from which Western civilization took its course, as unique and strange as any fantasy. Le Guin is famous for creating alternative worlds (as in Left Hand of Darkness Following the words of an oracle, King Latinus announces that Lavinia will marry Aeneas, a newly landed stranger from Troy the news provokes Amata, the farmers of Latinum, and Turnus, who starts a civil war. ![]() It’s a good match, and Turnus is handsome, but Lavinia is reluctant. She is fixated on marrying Lavinia to Amata’s nephew, Turnus, the king of neighboring Rutuli. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a this novel set in the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. Amata lost her sons to a childhood sickness and has since become slightly mad. Le Guin’s masterful novel gives a voice to Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, who rule Latinum in the era before the founding of Rome. ![]() , the only notable lines Virgil devotes to Aeneas’ second wife, Lavinia, concern an omen: the day before Aeneus lands in Latinum, Lavinia’s hair is veiled by a ghost fire, presaging war. ![]()
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