In fact, there is a strong suggestion that Amata herself is in love with Turnus. Amata is determined that Lavinia will marry her nephew Turnus, king of neighboring Rutulia. As soon as Lavinia becomes old enough to marry, many suitors come from the surrounding kingdoms, but she rejects all of them. Her domineering mother, Amata, has gone mad after the deaths of her sons as small children, but Latinus will not admit that his wife is mad. Le Guin's Lavinia is the adored daughter of Latinus, who is already an aging king when she is born. Le Guin breathes life into Lavinia's character and makes her very memorable. Many people who have read the Aeneid a long time ago, including myself, I admit, do not even remember her, at least by name. In the Aeneid, Lavinia is a very minor character who doesn't even have any spoken lines. Their descendants will be the founders of Rome. Lavinia is the daughter of King Latinus of Latium, and in Virgil's epic she is destined to marry the Trojan hero Aeneas.
Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series and many other science fiction and fantasy novels, gives life to a forgotten character from Virgil's Aeneid.
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