| A | B |
| Aeneas | Trojan hero; devotion to fate |
| Ascanius Iulus | Aeneas' son |
| Laocoon | priest of Neptune; devoured with his two children by two huge sea-serpents |
| Priam | king of Troy |
| Cassandra | Priam's daughter; profecies the future but no one believes her |
| Ulysses | known in Greek as Odysseus; Sinon said that he accused Palamedes of treason in order to kill him |
| Palamedes | Sinon's dead friend; killed because of an accusation of treason, made up by Ulysses, as Sinon tells the Trojans |
| Sinon | Greek agent. Tells a fake story to the Trojans, as part of the plan of the Greeks to convince the Trojans get the horse in Troy. |
| Wooden horse | part of the plan of the Greeks to enter the walls of Troy; Greek soldiers hiding in its belly |
| Tenedos | island where the Greeks are hiding until the wooden horse enters the city |
| Ifigeneia | daughter of Greek king Agamemnon; sacrificed before the beginning of war, so that the Greek ships would be able to sail to Troy. |
| Hector | king Priam's son. killed by Achilles. Appears in Aeneas' dream, warns him to leave. |
| Achilles and Diomede | Famous Greek warriors |
| Calchas | Greek prophet, told Greeks to sacrifice Sinon |