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Acestes

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

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Achates

a close friend of Aeneas

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Aeolus

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

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Amata

queen of Latium, wife of Latinus, mother of Lavinia

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Anchises

father of Aeneas

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Andromache

wife of Hector

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Anna

sister of Dido, builds Dido's funeral pyre

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Ascanius/Iulus

son of Aeneas

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Creusa

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

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Cumaean Sibyl

priestess/prophet of Apollo, leads Aeneas into the Underworld

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Dido

queen and founder of Carthage

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Evander

King of Pallanteum, ally of Aeneas, father of Pallas

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Hector

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

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Hecuba

Queen of Troy, wife of Priam

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Iarbas

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

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Juturna

sister of Turnus

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Laocoon

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

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Latinus

king of Latium, father of Lavinia

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Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus

son of Achilles, murders Priam

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Odysseus/Ulysses

Greek hero who creates the Trojan Horse

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Pallas

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

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Priam

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

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Pygmalion

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

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Sinon

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

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Sychaeus

husband of Dido, killed by Dido's brother Pygmalion

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Turnus

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

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Charon

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

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Cupid

shoots Dido with a love arrow

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Juno

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

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Neptune

saves Aeneas from the storm sent by Juno and Aeolus

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Venus

mother of Aeneas, goddess of love

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Vulcan

husband of Venus, creates an amazing shield for Aeneas

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Ambiorix

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

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Ariovistus

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

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Cassivellaunus

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

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Catuvolcus

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

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Commius

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

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Diviciacus

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

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Dumnorix

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

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Orgetorix

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

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Vercingetorix

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

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Titus Labienus

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

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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

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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

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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

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Aedui

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

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Allobroges

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

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Arverni

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

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Eburones

Belgian tribe, ruled by Ambiorix who leads the Belgian revolt

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Helvetii

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

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Nervii

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

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Sequani

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

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Suebi

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

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Treveri

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

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