The protagonist of the Aeneid. Aeneas is a survivor of the siege of Troy,

The queen of Carthage, a city in northern Africa, in what is now Libya, and lover of Aeneas.

The ruler of the Rutulians in Italy and Aeneas’s major antagonist among mortals.

(also called Iulus). Aeneas’s young son by his first wife, Creusa.

Aeneas’s father, and a symbol of Aeneas’s Trojan heritage.

Aeneas’s wife at Troy, and the mother of Ascanius.

The young Greek spy who pretends to have been left behind at the end of the Trojan War

The king of the Latins, the people of what is now central Italy, around the Tiber River.

Latinus’s daughter and a symbol of Latium in general.

Queen of Laurentum (a region of Latium, in Italy) and wife of Latinus.

A Trojan and a personal friend of Aeneas

(Latin name of Odysseus) The hero of Homer’s Odyssey

The greatest of the Greek warriors.

The greatest of the Trojan warriors, killed at Troy.

Hector’s wife, who survives the siege of Troy.

King of Pallanteum (a region of Arcadia, in Italy) and father of Pallas.

Son of Evander, whom Evander entrusts to Aeneas’s care and tutelage.

A Latin leader who desires an end to the Trojan-Latin struggle.

The leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens.

Turnus’s sister.

(Hera in Greek) The queen of the gods, the wife and sister of Jupiter

(Aphrodite in Greek) The goddess of love and the mother of Aeneas.

(also known as Jove, and Zeus in Greek) The king of the gods, and the son of Saturn.

(Poseidon in Greek) God of the sea is generally an ally of Venus and Aeneas.

(Hermes in Greek) The messenger god. The other gods often send Mercury on errands.

The god of the winds.

(Eros in Greek) A son of Venus and the god of erotic desire.

One of the Furies, or deities who avenge sins, sent by Juno to incite the Latin people to war against the Trojans.

God of fire and the forge, and husband of Venus.

The river god associated with the Tiber River, where Rome will eventually be built

(Cronus in Greek) The father of the gods. Saturn was king of Olympus until his son Jupiter overthrew him.

(Athena in Greek mythology) The goddess who protects the Greeks during the Trojan War and helps them conquer Troy.

A son of Jupiter. God of truth, prophecy, archery.

(Artemis in Greek) Apollo’s twin sister, Goddess of hunting, the moon and youth

the Trojan and Roman household gods or gods of the state

small ancestral gods brought by Anchises from Troy

the messenger goddess of Jupiter

(Ares in Greek) The god of war