| A | B |
|---|
| Aeneas | main protagonist; Trojan Hero; pius leader |
| Dido | Queen of Carthage |
| Turnus | Leader of the Rutulians; major antagonist |
| Ascanius | son of Aeneas who displays much bravery |
| Iulus | a.k.a. Ascanius |
| Anchises | father of Aeneas |
| Creusa | Aeneas' first wife |
| Sinon | Greek who pretended to have been abandoned; explained the Trojan horse |
| Latinus | King of the Latins |
| Lavinia | daughter of Latinus; betrothed of Aeneas |
| Amata | wife of Latinus, Queen of Laurentum |
| Evander | King of Pallanteum, father of Pallas |
| Pallas | son of Evander; killed in war with Turnus |
| Drances | Latin leader who wants to end Trojan/Latin struggle |
| Camilla | head of Volscians, Turnus' ally |
| Juturna | Turnus' sister; disguises herself to participate in the war |
| Achates | Aeneas' BFF |
| Anna | sister of Dido |
| Palinurus | the former pilot of Aeneas' ship |
| Priam | King of Troy |
| Sychaeus | Dido's husband, killed by her brother |
| Helenus | ruler of Buthrothrum; Andromache's newest husband |
| Laocoon | a Trojan priest who questioned the Trojan Horse |
| Mezentius | former Etruscan king, famous for cruelty |
| Nisus and Euryalus | best friends and spies slain in the Latin camp |
| Achaemenides | Greek accidentally abandoned in the land of the Cyclops |
| Arruns | Trojan warrior who kills Camilla |
| Circe | a sorceress who brings out the beast in men |
| Diomedes | a Greek now in Italy who refuses to ally with Turnus |
| Hector | The best of the Trojan warriors until killed by Achilles |
| Hecuba | Queen of Troy |
