| A | B |
|---|
| Achaemenides | companion of Ulysses who was left behind on the island of the Cyclpes |
| Achilles | He killed Hector and dragged his body around the walls of Troy. |
| The Atridae | sons of Atreus: Agamemnon and Menelaus |
| Pyrrhus | son of Achilles; he killed Priam. |
| Sinon | Greek spy who convinces the Trojans to bring in the horse. |
| Diomedes | great Greek warrior; later settled in Italy and refused to join Turnus in fighting against the Trojans |
| Ulixes | Took him ten years to get home to Ithaca; the Trojan horse was his idea. |
| Andromache | wife of Hector; she later remarried the surviving Trojan Helenus. |
| Cassandra | daughter of Priam and Hecuba who could foretell the future but would never be believed. |
| Hector | son of Priam and Hecuba, and husband of Andromache; Greatest of the Trojan warriors. |
| Hecuba | wife of Priam and mother of Cassandra, Hector, and Paris |
| Polites | young son of Priam and Hecuba who was killed by Pyrrhus as Priam watches |
| Priam | noble king of Troy and husband of Hecuba; killed by Pyrrhus during the sack of Troy |
| Acestes | king of Sicily who helped the Trojans |
| Neoptolemus | another name for Pyrrhus |
| Tydides | another name for Diomedes |
| Ithacus | another name for Ulixes |
| Dares and Entellus | Trojan boxers at the funeral games for Anchises (Book V) |
| Helenus | son of Priam, prophet, settles in Buthrotum with Andromache, gives Aeneas the prophecy of the white sow with the 30 piglets |
| Laocoon | Trojan priest of Neptune. He and his sons are eaten by snakes |
| Nisus and Euryalus | best buddies who help eachother during a footrace and get killed on a daring mission in Book 9. |
| Polydorus | son of Priam. Killed in Thrace by Polymnestor and is improperly buried. |
| Aeneas | our hero, always characterized as "pius" |
| Anchises | Trojan father of Aeneas. He dies in Sicily before the storm. |
| Creusa | Trojan wife of Aeneas and mother of Acanius. She comes to him as a ghost during the fall of Troy. |
| Iulus | another name for Ascanius |
| Achates | faithful friend of Aeneas. He accompanies him to Carthage in a golden mist. |
| Cloanthus | Trojan member of Aeneas' crew. He participates in the funeral games for Anchises. |
| Ilioneus | Trojan who leads the survivors who are separated by the storm. Goes as an envoy to Dido, and later to Latinus. |
| Misenus | Trojan bugler who is swept overboard on the way to Italy. |
| Nautes | Elderly Trojan who suggests those who are unhappy should stay in Sicily. |
| Palinurus | skilled helmsman who, on the way from Sicily to Italy, falls overboard. |
| Anna | Dido's sister; She encourages Dido to act on her love for Aeneas. |
| Barce | the nurse who Dido sends to summon Anna on the eve of her suicide |
| Dido | Queen of Carthage |
| Elissa | another name for Dido |
| Phoenissa | another name for Dido |
| Sidonia | another name for Dido |
| Sychaeus | Dido's dead husband |
| Pygmalion | Dido's evil brother |
| Iarbus | an African prince who sells Dido land and wishes to marry her. |
