| A | B |
|---|
| Aeolus | God of the winds |
| Allecto | A Fury who, at Juno's bidding, rouses both Amata and Turnus against Aeneas and the Trojans, and provokes war |
| Amor | Son of Venus; Cupid |
| Ceres (Demeter) | Goddess of crops and fertility of the earth |
| Cytherea; Lady of Cythera | Venus |
| Dis (Hades) | God of the underworld |
| Hecate | Goddess of magic and spells |
| Iris | Juno's messenger |
| Janus | God of thresholds and doors; protector of the beginning year (January) |
| Jove | Jupiter |
| Juno (Hera) | Queen of the gods; implacable opponent of the Trojans |
| Jupiter (Zeus) | Father of the gods |
| Mars (Ares) | God of war |
| Mercury (Hermes) | Messenger of the gods; master thief; guardian of commerce; guide of the dead |
| Minerva (Athena) | Zeus' favorite child; born from his head, fully armed; virginal; embodiment of wisdom, reason, piety |
| Neptune (Poseidon) | God of the sea |
| Phoebus | Apollo |
| Proserpina (Persophone) | Queen of the underworld |
| Saturn (Cronus) | Father of Jupiter; flees to Italy when overthrown by his son, and founds civilization |
| Stygian Jove; Stygian king | Dis |
| Venus (Aphrodite) | Goddess of love and fertility; mother of Aeneas |
| Vulcan (Hephaestus) | God of fire and the forge; forges new armor for Aeneas |
| Acestes | Trojan king of Sicily |
| Achates | Aeneas' close companion and friend |
| Aeneas | Son of Venus and Anchises; hero of story |
| Amata | Wife of Latinus and queen of Latium; mother of Lavinia |
| Anchises | Aged father of Aeneas |
| Anna | Dido's sister and confidant |
| Ascanius | Son of Aeneas and Creusa |
| Camilla | A Volscian warrior maiden; ally of Turnus |
| Cassandra | Daughter of Priam; a prophetess who will never be believed |
| Cloanthus | Trojan captain and warrior |
| Creusa | Wife of Aeneas; disappears in sack of Troy |
| Dardanus | Legendary founder of the city of Troy; born in Italy |
| Dido | Queen of Carthage |
| Drances | Latin elder; opponent of Turnus and advocate of peace |
| Elissa | Dido |
| Euryalus | A young Trojan who wins the foot race in Bk. 5; friend of Nisus; slain while attempting to get a message to Aeneas |
| Evander | King of the Arcadians; enemy of the Latins; ally of Aeneas |
| Helenus | A seer; son of Priam; marries Andromache, widow of Hector, and rules over a kingdom of Greeks, where he creates a 'miniature Troy' |
| Hercules | Son of Jupiter; slayer of the monster Cacus |
| Iulus | Ascanius |
| Laocoon | Priest of Neptune at Troy; killed by serpent |
| Laomedon's heir | Aeneas |
| Latinus | King of Latium |
| Lausus | Virtuous son of Mezentius; slain by Aeneas. |
| Lavinia | Daughter of Latinus |
| Mezentius | Former Etruscan king, in exile among the Rutulians, under Turnus' protection |
| Mnestheus | Trojan warrior |
| Nisus | Trojan warrior; friend of Euryalus; slain while attempting to get a message to Aeneas |
| Palinurus | Helmsman on Aeneas' ship |
| Pallas | Son of Evander, who entrusts him to Aeneas to learn warfare; slain by Turnus |
| Polydorus | Son of Priam murdered in Thrace |
| Pyrrhus | Son of Achilles; slays Priam |
| Romulus | Legendary founder of the city of Rome |
| Sergestus | Trojan warrior |
| Sibyl | Priestess of Apollo; prophetess |
| Sinon | Greek trickster who convinces the Trojans to take the wooden horse into Troy |
| Sychaeus | Dido's husband; murdered by her brother, the king of the Phoenicians |
| Turnus | Prince of the Rutulians; suitor for the hand of Lavinia; Aeneas' most implacable opponent; a sort of Latin "Achilles" |
| Ulysses | Odysseus |
| Cacus | Man-eating, fire-breathing monster killed by hercules for stealing his cattle |
| Calaeno | Harpy who prophesies that the Trojans will starve to the point that they eat their tables |
| Alba Longa | A city to be founded by Ascanius; seat of the descendents of Aeneas until the founding of Rome |
| Ausonia | Italy |
| Avernus | The underworld; the lake above the entrance to the underworld |
| Carthage | City in North Africa (modern Tunisia) founded by Phoenician colonists. Chief rival of Rome in western Mediterranean |
| Dardania | Troy |
| Dardans | Trojans |
| Elysium | The underworld paradise |
| Hesperia | Italy |
| Latium | West-central Italy; area around Rome |
| Lavininium | Aeneas' first settlement in Italy |
| Lethe | River in the Underworld where souls drink to forget their past lives before returning to the world above |
| Phrygians | Trojans |
| Rutulians | A people in Latium led by Turnus |
| Styx | Main river of the Underworld |
| Teucrians | Trojans |
| Tyrians | Dido's people |
