Caieta

According to some accounts, the nurse of Aeneas1 and, according to others, the nurse of Creusa or Ascanius.2 The promontory of Caieta, as well as the port and town of this name on the western coast of Italy, were believed to have been called after her.

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Aeneid vii, 1; Ovid. Metamorphoses xiv, 442.
  2. Servius on Virgil's Aeneidl.c.
  3. Klausen. Aeneas und die Penaten, p. 1044 ff.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.