Aventinus may refer to: Places: * Aventinus, Latin name of

Abensberg Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situated on the river Abens, a tributary of the ...

, Germany *

Aventine Hill The Aventine Hill (; la, Collis Aventinus; it, Aventino ) is one of the Seven Hills on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa, the modern twelfth ''rione'', or ward, of Rome. Location and boundaries The Aventine Hill is the sou ...

, named after Aventinus, king of Alba and Latium Persons: *

Aventinus (mythology) Aventinus was a son of Hercules and the priestess Rhea mentioned in Virgil's ''Aeneid'', Book vii. 656, as an ally of Mezentius and enemy of Aeneas (Dryden's translation): Servius on this passage speaks of an Aventinus, a king of the aborigin ...

, son of Hercules and Rhea *

Aventinus of Alba Longa Aventinus (said to have reigned 854-817 BC), one of the mythical kings of Alba Longa, who was buried on the Aventine Hill later named after him. He is said to have reigned thirty-seven years, and to have been succeeded by Procas, the father of ...

, descendant of Aeneas, king of the Latins (future Rome site) * Saint Aventinus (d. c 537), disciple of St. Loup * Aventinus of Tours (d. 1180), hermit and saint *

Johannes Aventinus Johann Georg Turmair (or Thurmayr) (4 July 1477 – 9 January 1534), known by the pen name Johannes Aventinus (Latin for "John of Abensberg") or Aventin, was a Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist. He authored the 152 ...

, Bavarian historian and philologist Others: *

Aventinus (beer) Aventinus may refer to: Places: * Aventinus, Latin name of Abensberg, Germany * Aventine Hill, named after Aventinus, king of Alba and Latium Persons: * Aventinus (mythology), son of Hercules and Rhea * Aventinus of Alba Longa, descendant of Aenea ...

, a wheat doppelbock brewed by G. Schneider & Sohn, in Bavaria, Germany

See also