The Aeneid characters
Aeneas was the son of the Dardan king Anchises and the goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite, the hero of the Trojan War and the founder of the city from which Rome later developed. Brave, mighty, reasonable and courageously handsome Aeneas was suitable for one of the main roles in Greek and Roman...
Juno is the ancient Roman goddess of marriage and birth, family and family ordinances, motherhood, women, and female productive power. A daughter of Saturn and Opa. A sister of Pluto, Neptune, Ceres and Vesta. A sister and the spouse of Jupiter. The mother of Mars and Vulcan. In ancient Greek...
Turnus was the King of the Rutuli in Roman mythology. The chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas., killed by him in a duel after stubborn battles. The central figures of the second part of the Aeneid are Aeneas and the king of the Rutuli of Turnus. Both images are positive, both of them are valiant...
Dido or Elissa is the name of the legendary founder of Carthage, daughter of the king of Tyre. After a terrible storm, the ship Aeneas (a widower who lost his wife in burning Troy) approaches the shores of Africa ruled by Dido (who also lost her husband and who did not know family happiness but...
The most famous poet of the August century Virgil is considered one of the geniuses of the pre-Christian era. There is little information about his biography, despite the variety of sources, many of them contradict each other. Although the Mantuan swan (this nickname was given to Virgil by his...