Misenus

A steersman of Aeneas,1 and, according to Virgil, at first a companion of Hector, and afterwards trumpeter of Aeneas; he died at Cumae, where Cape Misenum derived its name from him. His being called Aeolides arose from the legendary connection between the Aeolian and Campanian Cumae.

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References

Notes

  1. Aurelius Victor. The origins of Roman Race, 9.

Sources

  • Ovid. Metamorphoses xiv, 101-153.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Aeneid vi, 162 ff., 235.