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| city in Italy that Ascanius founds, moves the Latin capital to |
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Greek warrior
-Aeneas wishes Ajax had killed him |
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| Phoenician city now held by Dido's brother, Pygmalion (not the artist) |
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| leader of the Lycian mercenaries in Trojan War (Trojan side) |
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| not-so-famous river in Troy |
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| Trojan elder who advised Priam |
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natives in Italy ruled by King Turnus.
-Aeneas must fight and defeat them before he can found his city |
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| Romulus' and Remus' mother. Romulus-- if you don't remember him, get out of Latin class, plebe. |
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| Carthaginian girl whom Venus disguises herself as |
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| Dido's first husband, murdered by Pygmalion |
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Thracian mercenary king, Trojan ally.
Horses were stolen by Diomedes and Odysseus so they wouldn't drink from the Xanthus. Killed by the same. |
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| the famous Trojan river: if Rhesus's horses drank from it, Troy would survive. Ha ha. Stupid horses. |
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Amazon queen, Trojan ally, killed.
-painted on the temple wall in Carthage |
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| north of Carthage, thought to be the location of the garden of the Hesperides, actually the location of some part of Italy. |
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| Think Dardanelles. Don't know where that is? Hint: Troy. Clear yet? No? Trojans. |
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| Aeneas's aged father, who escaped the Trojan inferno on his son's back. He died on the journey to Aeneas's DESTINY!!1 |
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| the last king of Tyre, Dido and Pygmalion's father. |
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| Every time you get this wrong, another Roman ruin gets destroyed for a superhighway. Think of the Romans. They wouldn't exist without him. |
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| Latin 1. God, not noun. Venus's son. |
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| I might cry. No, really. Hannibal...Pyrrhic victory...Alps...elephants. At this point, Dido and Amazon-women-goddesses. Come on. Please? |
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| I might cry. No, really. Hannibal...Pyrrhic victory...Alps...elephants. At this point, Dido and Amazon-women-goddesses. Come on. Please? |
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| Aeneas's son, kidnapped and drugged by Venus so that Amor can take his place and put the moves on Dido. |
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| Greek warrior. He got the horses and the battle-rage. He is not the same guy as in Heracles. |
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| Has umpteen-krillion operas named after her. Right now, she's been kicked out of brother's kingdom and rules her own, which is outlined by a bull's hide. |
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| The excuse for Greek homosexuality. Kidnapped by Zeus because he was hot. Took Juno's daughter's place as cupbearer to the gods. |
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| Dido's brother's kingdom. Hers is sort of there too, but today Carthage is in Tunisia. |
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| the Roman Fates. They spin thread, cackle about it, and cut it. They do not share one eye and one tooth. Those are the Grey Women from the Bellerophon myth. They did the prophesisin' before it was cool. |
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| Same guy as in the Odyssey. This time, instead of helping, he's hurting. Think hurricanes and caves and you just about got it. |
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| the nymph offered to Aeolus in exchange for the Aeneas-beatdown. Think Anna Nicole Smith except less trashy and more plastic. |
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| Greeks-- think Danae. Yes, that one. With the shower of gold. (That came out wrong.) |
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| God of the sea. He stops Aeolus's storm because the storms are his job. |
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| God of the sea. He stops Aeolus's storm because the storms are his job. |
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| Sicilian king willing to help Aeneas found the Roman people...if he'll offer his friendship. He just can't refuse a request on this, the day of his daughter's wedding. |
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| Somewhere, a Latin teacher cries pitifully, curled into a little ball, hoping, just hoping, that you know this one. |
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| Yet another name for Italy, this time after the princess Lavinia whom Aeneas marries. |
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| Aeneas's mother, goddess of love and desire. |
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| king of the gods and Venus's father. Somehow. |
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| personification of War. Zeus's prophecy that some day, its gates will be shut (by Augustus) (Pax Romana). |
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| messenger god, just like in Greek. |
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| Not Ovid's artist, but Dido's brother. |
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| the boundary of Dido's kingdom |
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| Augury. Good omen. Aeneas had twelve ships before the storm. Are you there yet? Good. |
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| Had something like 50 children. Last king of Troy. |
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| Think Shakespeare. Haven't read that one? Trojan prince (another one), dies in the Trojan War. |
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| The really big Trojan prince. In the movie, Brad Pitt kills him and drags him around some while bitterly weeping. In the book, Brad Pitt kills him and drags him around some while bitterly weeping, then ransoms his body to Priam. Hey, wait... |
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| Appears only in a simile here, but she's Apollo's sister, a virgin, and well known as a huntress. An angry one. Don't even try it. |
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| A Greek warrior. Not the Aga- one. |
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