Characters

Question 1

Aeneas

Answer 1

Trojan who leads his people to Italy after the fall of Troy in order to found a new city. His descendants will found Rome.

Question 2

Dido

Answer 2

Queen of Carthage and lover of Aeneas. Her brother, Pygmalion, killed her first husband, Sychaeus. Dido lead some people from Tyre to found Carthage in Lybia.

Question 3

Turnus

Answer 3

Ruler of the Rutulians in Italy. Lavinia’s leading suitor.

Question 4

Ascanius/Iulus

Answer 4

Aeneas’ son who is fated to found Alba Longa which will become Rome.

Question 5

Creusa

Answer 5

Aeneas’ wife, Ascanius’ mother, and daughter of Priam. Lost and killed in Troy.

Question 6

Sinon

Answer 6

A Greek who pretends to be left behind in Troy by the Greeks and persuades the Trojans to take the wooden horse into the city.

Question 7

Latinus

Answer 7

King of the Latins and father of Lavinia

Question 8

Lavinia

Answer 8

Latinus’ daughter. Fated to be Aeneas’ wife.

Question 9

Amata

Answer 9

Queen of Laurentum (region of Latium) and Latinus’ wife.

Question 10

Evander

Answer 10

King of Pallanteum (region of Arcadia) and father of Pallas

Question 11

Draces

Answer 11

A Latin leader who wants to end the Latin-Trojan struggle

Question 12

Camilla

Answer 12

Leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens

Question 13

Jurturna

Answer 13

Turnus’ sister

Question 14

Achates

Answer 14

A Trojan and friend of Aeneas

Question 15

Juno

Answer 15

Queen of the gods, wife and sister of Jupiter. Hates Trojans as the Romans are fated to defeat Carthage and Paris chose Venus over her in a beauty contest (as Venus promised Helen in marriage)

Question 16

Venus

Answer 16

Goddess of live. Aeneas’ mother and benefactor of the Trojans. Daughter of Jupiter

Question 17

Jupiter

Answer 17

King of the gods and overseer of fate

Question 18

Neptune

Answer 18

God of the sea. Generally an ally of Venus and Aeneas

Question 19

Mercury

Answer 19

The messenger god

Question 20

Aeolus

Answer 20

God of the winds

Question 21

Cupid

Answer 21

God of erotic desire. Son of Venus.

Question 22

Allecto

Answer 22

One of the Furies

Question 23

Vulcan

Answer 23

God of fire and the forge. Venus’ husband

Question 24

Tiberinus

Answer 24

River god of the Tiber

Question 25

Saturn

Answer 25

Father of the gods, overthrown by Jupiter

Question 26

Minerva

Answer 26

Goddess of wisdom and battle strategy. Against Trojans

Question 27

Apollo

Answer 27

God of the sun. Jupiter’s son

Question 28

Somnos

Answer 28

God of sleep (killed Palinurus)

Question 29

Ulixies

Answer 29

Ulysses (Odysseus) - Greek captain who plans the wooden horse

Question 30

Achilles

Answer 30

Greatest Greek warrior. Killed Hector.

Question 31

Hector

Answer 31

Greatest Trojan warrior. Son of Priam. Parallel of Turnus

Question 32

Andromache

Answer 32

Hector’s wife. Survived the siege of Troy

Question 33

Paris

Answer 33

Trojan prince, Hector’s brother. Handsomest of men, asked to judge who was the most beautiful out of Minerva, Juno, and Venus. Chose Venus as she promised him Helen in marriage.

Question 34

Helen

Answer 34

Most beautiful of mortal women, Menelaus’ wife.

Question 35

Menelaus

Answer 35

Greek king who wed Helen

Question 36

Agamemnon

Answer 36

Leader of Greek army at Troy. King of Argos and Menelaus’ brother

Question 37

Priam

Answer 37

King of Troy. Slain in front of Aeneas during the fall of Troy

Question 38

Pyrrhus

Answer 38

Achilles’ son. Also called Neoptolemus. Kills Polites and Priam.

Question 39

Hecuba

Answer 39

Priam’s wife

Question 40

Pygmalion

Answer 40

King of Tyre. Dido’s brother and the killer of her husband

Question 41

Sychaeus

Answer 41

Dido’s first husband. Richest man in Tyre - killed by Pygmalion.

Question 42

Thymoetes

Answer 42

A Trojan who wanted to take the wooden horse into Troy

Question 43

Capys

Answer 43

A Trojan who wanted to burn the wooden horse, throw it into the sea, or bore holes into its stomach.

Question 44

Laocoon

Answer 44

Priest of Apollo. Trojan who says to beware of the Greeks and their gifts - threw spear into the wood of the horse’s stomach (death for this)

Question 45

Calchas

Answer 45

Greek prophet - Sinon says he was manipulated by Ulixes to name Sinon as the sacrifice (lies)

Question 46

Cassandra

Answer 46

Daughter of Priam. Trojan prophetess who is cursed to always tell correct prophecies but have no one believe her.

Question 47

Panthus

Answer 47

Priest of Apollo who fights with Aeneas in Troy after getting his grandson and the sacraments and the gods of the temples to safety in Anchises’ house. Died in Troy.

Question 48

Coroebus

Answer 48

One of the Trojans who fought with Aeneas in the fall of Troy. Had come to to Troy a few days earlier - in love with Cassandra. Dies.

Question 49

Androgeos

Answer 49

Greek fighter who sees Aeneas and his men and mistakes them for Greeks in Troy - him and all his men are killed

Question 50

Polites

Answer 50

One of Priam’s sons - killed before his parents’ eyes by Pyrrhus

Question 51

Anchises

Answer 51

Aeneas’ father. Dies in Sicily.

Question 52

Mars

Answer 52

God of war

Question 53

Anna

Answer 53

Dido’s sister - more rational

Question 54

Rumour

Answer 54

Personification

Question 55

Iarbas

Answer 55

Son of Jupiter and a nymph. King of a large realm near Carthage. Offered to marry Dido but rejected, when he hears of her and Aeneas he calls upon his father.

Question 56

Barce

Answer 56

Sychaeus’ nurse. Serves Dido in Carthage.

Question 57

Achestes

Answer 57

King of Sicily. Son of the river god Crinisus and a Trojan woman.

Question 58

Mnestheus

Answer 58

Trojan who comes 2nd in the boat race and cut the cord in the archery contest.

Question 59

Gyas

Answer 59

Comes third in the boat race (his helmsman, Menoetes, steers wide around the rock so he throws his off the ship)