Aeneid Characters Flashcards
Aeneas
Son of Venus, Our hero
Juno
Wife of Jupiter (head God), Roman equivalent of Hera, hostile to the Trojans
Venus
Goddess of Love, Mother of Aeneas, Roman equivalent of Aphrodite
Jupiter
Head God
Dido
Queen of Carthage, falls in love with Aeneas
Laocoon (+Sons)
Priest of Neptune, killed by serpents
Hector
Appeared as a ghost to Aeneas
Aeolus
God of the winds
Neptune
God of the sea, Roman equivalent to Poseidon
Cupid
inspires love in Dido, son of Venus
Ascanius (Iulus)
Son of Aeneas, substituted by Cupid in the meeting with Dido
Pygmalion
Dido’s brother, murdered her husband
Sychaeus
Dido’s husband, made her a widower
Sinon
the clever Greek
Cassandra
daughter of Priam, prophetess who will never be believed
Priam
King of Troy killed by Pyrrhus, father of Cassandra
Creusa
Aeneas’ wife
Polydorus
Son of Priam murdered in Thrace
Calaeno
Harpy who prophesies that the Trojans will starve to the point that they eat their tables
Helenus
Trojan seer and inheritor of the kingdom of Pyrrhus
Pyrrhus
son of Achilles, murders Priam
Andromache
former wife of Hector, then slave of Pyrrhus, now wife of Helenus
Acestes
friendly king of a land in Sicily
Anna
Dido’s sister
