What is "aventinus"

Aventinus may refer to:

Place:

• Aventine Hill, named after Aventinus, king of Alba and Latium

Persons:

• Aventinus (mythology), son of Hercules and Rhea
• Aventinus of Alba Longa, 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, Bavarian historian and philologist

Others:

• Aventinus (beer), a wheat doppelbock brewed by G. Schneider & Sohn, in Bavaria, Germany

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 aboriginal inhabitants of Rome, who was killed and buried on the hill afterwards called the Aventine Hill. This king may be conflated with the Aeneid figure or with Aventinus:

"The Aventine is a hill in the city of Rome. It is accepted that it derives its name from birds (aves) which, rising from the Tiber, nested there (as we read in the eighth book of a suitable home for the nests of ill-omened birds). This is because of a king of the Aboriginal Italians, Aventinus by name, who was both killed and buried there - just as the Alban king Aventinus was, he who was succeeded by Procas. Varro, however, states that amongst the Roman people, the Sabines accepted this mountain when it was offered them by Romulus, and called it the Aventine after the Aventus river in its area. It is therefore accepted that these different opinions came later, for in the beginning it was called Aventinus after either the birds or the Aboriginal King: from which it is accepted that the son of Hercules mentioned here took his name from that of the hill, not vice versa."

This Aventinus (the son of Hercules) is not mentioned elsewhere in classical literature.

Aventinus is a strong, dark, wheat doppelbock made in Bavaria, Germany by the brewery company G. Schneider & Sohn.

This beer was introduced in 1907 by Mathilde Schneider. This beer is named in honor of Johannes Aventinus, a Bavarian historian.

It has an original gravity of 18.5 degrees Plato.