Aeneid Book 1 Places

Land named after Aeneas’ second wife

Lavinium

Origin place for Aeneas

Troy

City colonized by Tyrians, loved by Juno

Carthage

Loved less than Dido’s city but still greatly loved by Juno

Samos

Also loved greatly by Juno and a place from where the greatest Greek chieftain came

Argos

Place of the clouds, hidden by mountains, trapping winds

Aeolia

Sailed by a race hateful to Juno

Tyrrhenian Sea

Tributary of Scamander/Xanthus, caught so many shields and bodies

Simois

Spine of rock beneath surface of mid-ocean

Altars

Place where Eurus took the Trojans from the sandbanks

Syrtes

Harbour formed by island blocking mouth, with rock cliffs everywhere and shimmering trees and dark woods

Libya

Place of Trojan rest and rise

Latium

Home for Trojans founded by Antenor

Patavium

Island of Venus, not Cyprus

Cythera

Land ruled by Aeneas for three years

Latium

Land founded by Ascanius and ruled for thirty years

Alba Longa

Ruled by Peleus whose son was Achilles

Pthia

Ruled by Agamemnon

Mycenae

Founded and ruled by Dido

Carthage

Kingdom from which Dido came

Phoenicia

Original name of land bought for Carthage, as large as piece of bull hide

Byrsa

Sea on which Aeneas first embarked with twenty ships, which went down to seven

Phrygian sea

City on Cyprus, which houses Venus’ favorite temple

Paphos

Ancient land strong in war and rich in fertility of soil, tilled by Oenotrians

Hesperia

Land ruled by Acestes

Sicily

Native land of Teucer the Greek

Salamis