Editing Misenus

{{Short description|Figure from Greco-Roman mythology}}
[[File:The Funeral of Misenus (c. 1653) by Francis Cleyn.jpg|thumb|''The Funeral of Misenus'' ({{circa|1653}}) by [[Francis Cleyn]]]]
In [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology|Roman]] mythology, '''Misenus''' (Μισηνός) was a name attributed to two individuals.

* Misenus was a friend of [[Odysseus]].
* Misenus was a character in [[Virgil]]'s epic poem the ''[[Aeneid]]''. He was a brother-in-arms of [[Hector]] and, after Hector's death, [[Aeneas]]' trumpeter. In Book VI, it is revealed that he had challenged the gods to a musical contest on the conch shell, and for his impudence was drowned by [[Triton (mythology)|Triton]]. Aeneas was told by the [[Cumaean Sibyl]] at that time that Misenus's body had to be buried before he could enter the Underworld.<ref>''Aeneid'' VI</ref> The passage detailing the funeral rites, performed by the Trojan priest [[Corynaeus]], gives an insight into Roman burial customs and the importance the Romans placed on respect for the dead.  It is regarded as the passage of the ''Aeneid'' most imitative of the [[Annales (Ennius)|Annales]] of [[Ennius]]. [[Cape Misenum]], near [[Cumae]], is supposedly named for Misenus, as noted in Virgil's ''Aeneid''.  His being called ''Aeolides'' arose from the legendary connection between the Aeolian and Campanian Cumae.<ref name="eunicus">{{Citation
  | last = Schmitz
  | first = Leonhard
  | author-link = 
  | contribution = Misenus
  | editor-last = Smith
  | editor-first = William
  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]
  | volume = 2
  | pages = 1093
  | publisher = 
  | place = 
  | year = 1867
  | contribution-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141024164112/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2201.html }}</ref>

{{clear}}{{scalable image|Funeral of Misenus (c. 1540) by Luca Penni.jpg|2000px|{{circa|1540}} drawing of the funeral of Misenus by [[Luca Penni]]|alt=Funeral of Misenus (c. 1540) by Luca Penni}}

== References ==
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{{Aeneid}}

[[Category:Characters in the Aeneid]]
[[Category:Aeolides]]