Aeneid people and places

Dido

queen of Carthage

Turnus

The ruler of the Rutulians in Italy, Aeneas’s mortal antagonist

Ascanius

Aeneas and Creusa’s son

Anchises

Aeneas’ father

Creusa

Aeneas’ first wife

Sinon

Liar who got the horse into Troy

Latinus

King of Latins

Lavinia

Latinus’ daughter

Amata

Latinus’ wife

Evander

King of Pallanteum, father of Pallas

Pallas

son of Evander

Camilla

The leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens

Achates

Aeneas’ friend

Juno

Queen of the gods, hates Aeneas

Venus

Goddess of love, mother of Aeneas

Jupiter

King of the gods, keeper of fate and justice

Neptune

God of the sea

Mercury

Messenger of the gods

Aeolus

Keeper of winds

Cupid

son of Venus

Allecto

a fury

Vulcan

God of fire and forgery

Tiberinus

River god associated with River Tiber

Saturn

father of Jupiter

Minerva

Goddess of wisdom

Apollo

God of the sun

Ulysses

Odysseus

Achilles

Greek warrior

Hector

Trojan warrior

Andromache

Hector’s wife

Paris

Helen’s Trojan husband

Helen

blamed for Trojan war

Menelaus

first husband of Helen

Agamemnon

brother of Menelaus

Priam

King of Troy

Pyrrhus

son of Achilles

Nisus

Trojan who dies trying to get Aeneas

Euryalus

Young Trojans who dies trying to get to Aeneas