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| Aeneas' ancestor who came from Italy |
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| Pretended to have defected from the Greeks and persuaded the Trojans to bring in the horse. |
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| Panthus is running away from Troy and tells Aeneas that the city is falling. He's Greek, but living in Troy. |
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| He comes to Aeneas as a ghost and tells him to flee Troy. |
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| Throws a spear at the horse, tells them it's full of soldiers, and is eaten by serpents (along with kids). |
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| Aeneas' old father, who he carries out of Troy on his back. |
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| Aeneas' first wife, who he leaves behind |
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| Aeneas first stop after leaving Troy. He establishes Aeneadae, but leaves after burying Polydorus |
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| A son of Priam, who was sent to be raised by the Thracian king, who then joined Agamemnon and killed Polydorus for gold. He is now a clump of shafts growing from the ground which bleed when Aeneas tries to pull them up. |
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| Aeneas' second stop. On Mykanos. Here he is told to go to his parents' home. |
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| The king of Delos who tells Aeneas to go to his parents' home, which Anchises interprets as Crete. |
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| Where Aeneas thinks he's supposed to go because Teucer came from there. They leave because of a plague, and because Aeneas' household gods tell him in a dream to go to Hesperia. |
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| City Aeneas founds on Crete |
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| harpy who prophesies that they have to "eat their tables" before they settle |
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| the site of a new, mini-Troy created by Helenus and Andromache |
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| Son of Priam, who is living with Andromache (long story) in a new, mini-Troy. He tells them they have to go to the Oracle of Cumae. |
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| Wife of Hector. Settled down with Helenus in Buthrotum, still mourning Hector. |
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| Aeneas' ancestor who came from Crete |
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| aka Neoptolemus. Son of Achilles. He had control of Helenus and Andromache, but was killed by Orestes over Hermione. |
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| Greek on the island of the cyclops who was left behind by Ulysses. |
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| Cyclops who had a nasty run-in with Ulysses |
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| Keeper of the winds. Juno bribes him to create the storm that sends Aeneas to Carthage. She wanted the storm to kill them, but Neptune complained that she was overstepping her powers. |
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| Queen of Carthage who falls in love with Aeneas and kills herself when he leaves. |
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| Dido's old husband, who was killed by her brother, prompting her to leave Tyre and found Carthage. |
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| Dido's sister and confidante, who seems to have a relationship with Aeneas (?) |
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| The messenger of the gods. He is sent by Jupiter to Aeneas in Carthage to make him move on and fulfill his destiny. |
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| Dido's brother, who killed her husband. |
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| A monster with many eyes, tongues, mouths, and wings. |
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| A spurned suitor of Dido who complains to Jupiter that Dido, who refused to marry anyone, is now off with Aeneas. |
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| A Trojan who is living at Eryx and is happy to see fellow Trojans. |
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| The site of Anchises funeral games. |
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| Starts out winning the boat race, and then throws his helmsman overboard and loses. |
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| Helmsman who gets thrown overboard in the boat race. |
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| participant in the boat race who ran aground. |
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| Lover of Euryalus. In the foot race he falls and then trips Salius so that Euryalus can win. Later he and Euryalus go out to find Aeneas and kill lots of Rutulians, and get killed. |
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| Lover of Nisus. He wins the footrace, and later gets killed with Nisus while killing Rutulians and not looking for Aeneas. His mother throws a fit. |
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| Participant in the boxing match. At first no one will fight him, but then he loses. |
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| Fights Dares in the boxing match, wins, and then kills his prize bull by punching it in the head. |
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| The woman who, inspired by Iris (who was sent by Juno) leads the women to build the ship. |
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| City founded by women who burned ships and don't want to go on. |
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| Aeneas' helmsman, who is overcome by sleep and falls overboard. He later tells Aeneas a very different story when they meet in the underworld. |
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| Aeneas's friend who, among other things, leads them to the sybil |
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| Aeneas's friend who, among other things, leads them to the sybil |
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| priest of Hecate and Apollo at Cumae |
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| river that encircles the underworld |
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| home of the sybil who writes her prophesies on leaves which get blown around and ruined. She leaves Aeneas through the underworld. |
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| Aeneas' crew member who they have to bury before they could go into the underworld. They found him on the beach at Misenum (?) |
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| Pit at the entrance to the underworld. |
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| River that Charon has to bring people across in the underworld. |
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| Ferry man of the underworld. |
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| Queen of the underworld (Persephone) |
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| Once king of Crete, he now presides over the the dead and assigns people a place in the underworld. |
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| Part of the underworld for people consumed by love. Dido is here. |
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| A son of Priam who was given Helen when Paris was killed, but who was then killed partially by Helen, while in bad without armor, when the Greeks took over Troy. He talks to Aeneas in the underworld. |
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| Part of the underworld for the unrighteous |
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| Forest god, father of Latinus |
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| Father of Faunus, grandfather of Latinus. He was turned into a woodpecker. |
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| Main suitor of Lavinia who leads the offensive against Aeneas. |
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| Messenger sent by Aeneas to Latinus |
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| Lavinia's father. King in the area of Italy that will eventually by near Rome. |
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| Italian princess who both Turnus and Aeneas want to marry. |
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| monster sent by Juno to harass Aeneas. |
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| Lavinia's mother, who eventually commits suicide. |
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| Italian man who fights Aeneas. He owns the stag whose death sparked battle. His children are Almo and Sylvia. |
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| First casualty. Italian boy. |
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| particularly vicious Italian king. Aeneas kills him. |
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| Mezentius' son. Aeneas respects him as a foil to Pallas. |
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| Monster that Evander tells Aeneas used to live in a nearby cave but was killed by Hercules. |
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| Allied with Aeneas. He sends his son, Pallas to fight. |
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| Evander's son, who fights and dies for Aeneas. |
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| Alternate name for Tiber (Italian river) |
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| Italian commander who kills Nisus and Euryalus |
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| Diana worshiping woman who fights for Turnus and is killed. As a baby her father tied her to a spear and threw her across a river to safety while being chased, and then brought her up in the woods. |
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| Capital of Rutuli, home of Turnus |
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| Turnus' sister, a minor goddess who interferes in the planned duel between Aeneas and Turnus. |
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| Sinon tells about how Ulysses planted evidence that had him executed. |
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| Name of a ship in the race. Mnestheus' ship |
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