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  2. Category:Characters in the Aeneid - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Characters in the Aeneid" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  3. Category:Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid - Wikipedia

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    Characters in this book need to be noted separately since they do not appear as active characters, but are shown to Aeneas in a vision in the underworld, and are mainly either: historical or mythical figures from Aeneas's future (ie from the Roman past or present of Virgil 's time)

  4. Aeneid - Wikipedia

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    Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

  5. Category:Aeneid - Wikipedia

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    Characters in the Aeneid (5 C, 109 P) W. Works based on the Aeneid (2 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Aeneid" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.

  6. List of Homeric characters - Wikipedia

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    Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), another warrior-king, famed for his cunning, who is the main character of another (roughly equally ancient) epic, the Odyssey. Patroclus (Πάτροκλος), beloved companion of Achilles. Phoenix (Φοῖνιξ), an old Achaean warrior, greatly trusted by Achilles, who acts as mediator between Achilles and Agamemnon.

  7. Mnestheus - Wikipedia

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    Mnestheus (Ancient Greek: Μνησθεός) is a character from Roman mythology, found in Virgil's Aeneid. He is described by Virgil as the ancestral hero of the Memmii and "Of the house of Assaracus". One of a handful of vaguely defined lieutenants under Aeneas, he appears to be Aeneas's most senior captain, taking charge in Book 9 in his absence.

  8. Nisus and Euryalus - Wikipedia

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    Virgil introduces the characters anew, but they have already appeared in Book 5, [11] at the funeral games held for Aeneas's father, Anchises, during the "Odyssean" first half of the epic. [12] The games demonstrate behaviors that in the war to come will result in victory or defeat; in particular, the footrace in which Nisus and Euryalus ...

  9. Category:Deities in the Aeneid - Wikipedia

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