Aventinus wearing a lion-skin helmet
Aventinus wearing a lion-skin helmet. Son of Roman hero Hercules and the priestess Rhea mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid as an ally of Mezentius and enemy of Aeneas. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor's Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as FavissE utriusque antiquitatis tam RomanE quam GrEcE in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716
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