Aeneid Characters

2. The leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens.
5. Latinus’s daughter and a symbol of Latium in general.
7. The messenger god
8. A son of Venus and the god of erotic desire.
12. survivor of the siege of Troy, a city on the coast of Asia Minor.
13. King of Pallanteum (a region of Arcadia, in Italy) and father of Pallas.
15. The king of the Latins, the people of what is now central Italy, around the Tiber River.
18. Son of Evander, whom Evander entrusts to Aeneas’s care and tutelage.
19. A Trojan and a personal friend of Aeneas.
21. God of the Sea, and generally an ally of Venus and Aeneas.
22. The Greek youth who pretends to have been left behind at the end of the Trojan War.

1. Queen of Laurentum (a region of Latium, in Italy) and wife of Latinus.
3. Aeneas’s father, and a symbol of Aeneas’s Trojan heritage.
4. The ruler of the Rutulians in Italy.
6. The goddess of love and the mother of Aeneas.
9. A Latin leader who desires an end to the Trojan-Latin struggle.
10. The queen of the gods, the wife and sister of Jupiter, and the daughter of Saturn.
11. Aeneas’s young son by his first wife, Creusa
14. The queen of Carthage, a city in northern Africa, in what is now Tunisia, and lover of Aeneas
16. The god of the winds, enlisted to aid Juno in creating bad weather for the Trojans in Book I.
17. The king of the gods, and the son of Saturn.
20. Aeneas’s wife at Troy, and the mother of Ascanius.