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Characters Flashcards

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Aeneas

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

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Dido

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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.

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Turnus

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

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Ascanius/Iulus

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

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Creusa

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

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Sinon

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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.

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Latinus

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King of the Latins and father of Lavinia

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Lavinia

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Latinus’ daughter. Fated to be Aeneas’ wife.

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Amata

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

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Evander

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

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Draces

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

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Camilla

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Leader of the Volscians, a race of warrior maidens

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Jurturna

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Turnus’ sister

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Achates

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A Trojan and friend of Aeneas

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Juno

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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)

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Venus

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

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Jupiter

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King of the gods and overseer of fate

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Neptune

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

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Mercury

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The messenger god

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Aeolus

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God of the winds

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Cupid

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God of erotic desire. Son of Venus.

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Allecto

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One of the Furies

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Vulcan

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God of fire and the forge. Venus’ husband

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Tiberinus

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River god of the Tiber

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Saturn

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Father of the gods, overthrown by Jupiter

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Minerva

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Goddess of wisdom and battle strategy. Against Trojans

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Apollo

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God of the sun. Jupiter’s son

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Somnos

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God of sleep (killed Palinurus)

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Ulixies

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

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Achilles

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Greatest Greek warrior. Killed Hector.

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Hector

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Greatest Trojan warrior. Son of Priam. Parallel of Turnus

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Andromache

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Hector’s wife. Survived the siege of Troy

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Paris

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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.

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Helen

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Most beautiful of mortal women, Menelaus’ wife.

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Menelaus

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Greek king who wed Helen

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Agamemnon

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

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Priam

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

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Pyrrhus

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

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Hecuba

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Priam’s wife

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Pygmalion

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

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Sychaeus

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

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Thymoetes

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A Trojan who wanted to take the wooden horse into Troy

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Capys

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

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Laocoon

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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)

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Calchas

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

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Cassandra

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

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Panthus

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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.

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Coroebus

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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.

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Androgeos

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

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Polites

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

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Anchises

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Aeneas’ father. Dies in Sicily.

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Mars

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God of war

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Anna

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Dido’s sister - more rational

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Rumour

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Personification

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Iarbas

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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.

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Barce

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Sychaeus’ nurse. Serves Dido in Carthage.

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Achestes

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

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Mnestheus

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

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Gyas

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

Classics: The Aeneid (5 decks)

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