Amata kills herself once it is clear that Aeneas is destined to win. King of Pallanteum a region of Arcadia, in Italy and father of Pallas. Evander is a sworn enemy of the Latins, and Aeneas befriends him and secures his assistance in the battles against Turnus. Pallas eventually dies in battle at the hands of Turnus, causing Aeneas and Evander great grief.
A Latin leader who desires an end to the Trojan-Latin struggle. The leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens. Camilla is perhaps the only strong mortal female character in the epic. Juno provokes Juturna into inducing a full-scale battle between the Latins and the Trojans by disguising herself as an officer and goading the Latins after a treaty has already been reached.
The queen of the gods, the wife and sister of Jupiter, and the daughter of Saturn. She takes out her anger on Aeneas throughout the epic, and in her wrath acts as his primary divine antagonist. The goddess of love and the mother of Aeneas. Venus Aphrodite in Greek mythology is a benefactor of the Trojans. She helps her son whenever Juno tries to hurt him, causing conflict among the gods. She is also referred to as Cytherea, after Cythera, the island where she was born and where her shrine is located.
The king of the gods, and the son of Saturn. God of the sea, and generally an ally of Venus and Aeneas. Neptune Poseidon in Greek mythology calms the storm that opens the epic and conducts Aeneas safely on the last leg of his voyage. The messenger god. The other gods often send Mercury Hermes in Greek mythology on errands to Aeneas. A son of Venus and the god of erotic desire. God of fire and the forge, and husband of Venus. Venus urges Vulcan Hephaestus in Greek mythology to craft a superior set of arms for Aeneas, and the gift serves Aeneas well in his battle with Turnus.
The river god associated with the Tiber River, where Rome will eventually be built. The father of the gods. Saturn Chronos in Greek mythology was king of Olympus until his son Jupiter overthrew him.
The goddess who protects the Greeks during the Trojan War and helps them conquer Troy. A son of Jupiter and god of the sun. Apollo was born at Delos and helps the Trojans in their voyage when they stop there. Because he is often portrayed as an archer, many characters invoke his name before they fire a shaft in battle. The greatest of the Greek warriors.
Achilles slew the Trojan hero Hector during the war and is the tragic hero of the Iliad. Arthur King of Britain. Lavinia his wife. Princess of Latium. Silvius their son. Rhea Silvia Vestal Virgin. She was mortal lover of the God Mars and mother to twins Romulus and Remus.
Mars God of War and father to twins Romulus and Remus. Romulus twin to Remus. Suckled by a she-wolf in a cave now known as the Lupercal. Romulus became the Founder and First King of Rome. Remus twin to Romulus and also suckled by a she-wolf. He was later killed by his brother, Romulus. Julius Caesar Dictator of the Roman Republic. Caesar traced his lineage to Aeneas and thus to the Goddess Venus in order to claim divine origin. Troy Priam King of Troy. Venus gets Amor, the personification of love, to make Dido fall madly in love with Aeneas.
That night, at a banquet in his honor, Aeneas tells Dido the story of how Troy was captured, and how he escaped, carrying his father, Anchises, on his back, and leading his son, Ascanius, by the hand. His wife, Creusa, died in the chaos — making Aeneas single, too. Next, Aeneas recounts he and his fellow refugees' wanderings over the sea, including their close encounters with various weird mythological creatures. Aeneas's story ends with the death of his father, Anchises.
Aeneas and the Trojans end up wintering in Carthage, and he and Dido become an item. Then Jupiter gets worried that Aeneas is abandoning his destiny of founding a new city. He sends the god Mercury down to tell him to get moving. Aeneas does as he's told, and Dido kills herself. A storm forces the Trojans to land in Sicily — at the exact place where they buried Anchises a year before. While the Trojans hold athletic contests in the old man's honor, Juno convinces the Trojan women to set fire to the ships.
Realizing that not everyone is as jazzed about going to Italy as he is, Aeneas leaves some people in Sicily and sails on to Italy with his A-team. Their first stop is Cumae, in the Bay of Naples, where they visit the Sibyl, a prophetess. She leads Aeneas down to the underworld, where he sees a lot of spooky stuff, talks with his father Anchises, and sees the spirits of future Roman heroes, waiting to be born. He also encounters Dido. He tries to talk to her but she rejects him.
Fired up by what he has seen in the underworld, Aeneas sails to Latium. As it happens, Latinus, the local king, has received an oracle saying his only child, Lavinia, must marry a foreign husband; he offers her to Aeneas in marriage.
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