Tiberinus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Camese(parent),Janus(parent)— Marriage

  Janus ruled as king of Latium in the golden age and took Camese as his wife, and from their union was born Tiberinus, whose drowning in the river Albula gave the Tiber its name.

• Rhea Silvia(spouse)— Consort

  After Amulius cast Rhea Silvia into the Tiber for breaking her Vestal vow, the river god Tiberinus caught her in his waters and took her as his bride.

  ⚠ Livy (Ab Urbe Condita 1.4) records that Rhea Silvia was imprisoned, not cast into the river. The Tiberinus marriage tradition derives from earlier poets Ennius and Naevius, preserved in Servius's commentary.

Rules over

• Tiber

  Tiberinus, the drowned Alban king deified as the river's guardian spirit, rules over the Tiber as its god. He appeared to Aeneas in a dream, calming the river's currents to grant the Trojans safe passage upstream to Pallanteum.