Ilia

Given name(s): Ilia, Rhea

Surname(s):

Gender: Female

Fictional: yes

Description: Mother of Romulus and Remus. [DH.1.79.2; Ov.Fast.3.41, 4.54; Vir.Aen.6.777, 1.273; Plu.PS.36; Plu.Rom.3.3, 4.2]

Categories

Characters in Roman Mythology

Type: character

Passage: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.79.2 / Ovid, Fasti 3.41 / Virgil, Aeneid 6.777 / Plutarch, Moralia (Greek and Roman Parallel Stories) 36 / Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Romulus) 3.3

Also known as

Rhea Silvia