AP Latin People

Acestes

Acestes

Trojan king of Sicily, welcomes Aeneas and hosts Anchises's funeral

Achates

a close friend of Aeneas

Aeolus

god/king of the winds, sends storm to sink Aeneas

Amata

queen of Latium, wife of Latinus, mother of Lavinia

Anchises

father of Aeneas

Andromache

wife of Hector

Anna

sister of Dido, builds Dido's funeral pyre

Ascanius/Iulus

son of Aeneas

Creusa

Aeneas's first wife, mother of Ascanius, dies during sack of Troy

Cumaean Sibyl

priestess/prophet of Apollo, leads Aeneas into the Underworld

Dido

queen and founder of Carthage

Evander

King of Pallanteum, ally of Aeneas, father of Pallas

Hector

greatest Trojan hero, warned Aeneas to flee Troy in a dream

Hecuba

Queen of Troy, wife of Priam

Iarbas

African king, sold land to Dido, wants to marry Dido

Juturna

sister of Turnus

Laocoon

Trojan priest of Neptune, tries to warn against bringing in the Trojan Horse

Latinus

king of Latium, father of Lavinia

Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus

son of Achilles, murders Priam

Odysseus/Ulysses

Greek hero who creates the Trojan Horse

Pallas

son of Evander, close friend of Aeneas, killed by Turnus

Priam

king of Troy, father of Hector, Paris, and Cassandra

Pygmalion

Dido's evil brother, kills Dido's husband Sychaeus

Sinon

Greek man left behind to convince Trojans to bring in the Trojan Horse

Sychaeus

husband of Dido, killed by Dido's brother Pygmalion

Turnus

king of the Rutulians, leader of the Italian opposition to Aeneas

Charon

ferryman of the Underworld, carries Aeneas and the Sibyl across the Styx

Cupid

shoots Dido with a love arrow

Juno

has strong opposition to Aeneas and all Trojans, sends the storm, causes the war in Italy

Neptune

saves Aeneas from the storm sent by Juno and Aeolus

Venus

mother of Aeneas, goddess of love

Vulcan

husband of Venus, creates an amazing shield for Aeneas

Ambiorix

king of the Eburones (Belgians), leads a rebellion against Caesar, convinces Cotta and Sabinus to leave their camp

Ariovistus

king of the Suebi (Germans), leads an invasion of Gaul, defeated by Caesar and driven back across the Rhine

Cassivellaunus

leader of the Britons, resists Caesar's invasion of Britain, finally surrenders to Caesar

Catuvolcus

co-king with Ambiorix of the Eburones (Belgians), participates in the revolt against the Romans

Commius

king of the Atrebates, sent by Caesar as envoy to Britain, later defects and joins Vercingetorix's rebellion

Diviciacus

leader of the Aedui, friendly to Rome, his brother Dumnorix tried to lead the Aedui against Rome

Dumnorix

leader of the Aedui, strongly anti-Roman, tries to lead Aedui against Rome, spared by Caesar because of his brother Diviciacus

Orgetorix

leader of the Helvetii (Swiss), proposes that they migrate away from the Germans, Helvetii execute him

Vercingetorix

king of the Arverni, leads the last great Gallic revolt against the Romans, surrenders to the Romans at Alesia

Titus Labienus

Caesar's second in command, leads campaigns against the Treveri and Parisii

Quintus Tullius Cicero

brother of the orator Cicero, legate of Caesar, surrounded by the Nervii during the Belgian revolt, saved at the last minute by Caesar

Quintus Titurius Sabinus

legate of Caesar, stationed in the territory of the Eburones during the Belgian revolt, believed Ambiorix and argued that the Romans should leave the camp

Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta

legate of Caesar, stationed in the territory of the Eburones during the Belgian revolt, believed Ambiorix and argued that the Romans should NOT leave the camp

Aedui

Roman ally throughout the Gallic Wars until they defect during Vercingetorix's revolt, located in central Gaul

Allobroges

neighbors to Rome and the Helvetii, Roman allies, refuse to allow the Helvetii to cross their territory

Arverni

rivals of the Aedui, invited Ariovistus to invade Gaul, their king Vercingetorix leads the last great Gallic revolt

Eburones

Belgian tribe, ruled by Ambiorix who leads the Belgian revolt

Helvetii

tribe living in Switzerland, attempt to migrate away from Germans, their migration starts the war, led by Orgetorix

Nervii

Belgian tribe, joined Ambiorix's revolt, surrounded Quintus Cicero's camp

Sequani

major tribe in eastern Gaul, invited Ariovistus to invade Gaul, joined the revolt of Vercingetorix

Suebi

German tribe, ruled by Ariovistus, invade Gaul when invited by the Arverni and Sequani, defeated by Caesar

Treveri

Belgian tribe, joined the revolt of Ambiorix, defeated by Titus Labienus