Aeneas and Dido's Love Story

Dardanius

Trojan grandson of Venus

Ascanius

Aeneas's son

Prima Tellus

First Earth, another name for Gaia

Coeo

One of the Titans, father of Latona

Enceladoque

One of the Giants, defeated by Jupiter

Fama

Goddess of rumor and fame

Hammone

African god equated with Jupiter

Iarbas

Garamantide nympha's son, Gaetulian king

Maurusia gens

Maurusian (Moroccan) tribe

Lenaeum honorem

Bacchic offering of wine

Ille Paris

Paris, the Trojan prince

Maeonia mitra

Maeonian chin, Aeneas's Tyrian purple cloak

Iuli

Aenea's son

Cyllenius

Mercury, messenger of the gods

Thyias

A cultist, a follower of Bacchus

Baccho

Bacchus, god of wine

Cithaeron

Mountain associated with Bacchus

Mediis Aquilonibus

In the middle of the Aquilones winds (in the middle of winter)

Pygmalion

Dido's brother

Gaetulus

Iarbas, king of the Gaetulians

Elissae

Dido's people, the Carthaginians

Gryneus

Apollo, associated with a town named Gryneum

Lyciae sortes

Lycian lots/prophecies

Phoenissam

Phoenician

Ausonia

Italy

Patris Anchisae

Father Anchises's homeland

Puer Ascanius

The boy Ascanius, Aeneas's son

Hesperiae

Italy

Patres Sidonios

Sidonian fathers, elders of Carthage

Iris

Messenger goddess and goddess of the rainbow

Proserpina

Persephone, queen of the underworld

Stygio Orco

Stygian Orcus, the Underworld

Diti Dis

The Underworld or Pluto/Hades himself