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Personal data Amata 

  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Amata (also called Palanto), in Roman mythology, was the wife of King Latinus of the Latins. She and Latinus had a daughter Lavinia, and no sons.

    When the hero Aeneas sued for Lavinia's hand in marriage, Amata opposed him because she had already promised Lavinia to Aeneas' nemesis Turnus. At the same time she was instigated by Alecto, who acted according to the request of the goddess Juno.

    Hiding her daughter in the woods and arousing the womenfolk of the Latins, managed to stir up the war between the people of King Mezentius, the Etruscans (now allied with Turnus) and Aeneas' Trojans (allied with King Evander's people and the Arborigines). This story fills the greater part of the seventh book of Virgil's Aeneid. When Amata was informed that Turnus had fallen in battle, she hanged herself.

Household of Amata

She is married to Latinus of Latium.

They got married


Child(ren):

  1. Lavinia   

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  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amata

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Andre Bas, "Family tree Bas", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-bas/I98.php : accessed December 29, 2025), "Amata".