People And Places In Aeneid 3

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Aeneas

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The protagonist, refuge from Troy and founder-to-be of the Roman race

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Anchises

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Aeneas' father

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Ascanius

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Aeneas' son

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Polydorus

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Priam had sent Polydorus to the king of Thrace to be safe from the war, but when Troy fell, the Thracian king sided with the Greeks and killed Polydorus

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Thrace

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Aeneas' first port of call

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Priam

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The king of Troy

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Troy (Neptune Troy)

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The city which Paris and Aeneas came from, which was burnt to the ground by the Greeks. Called 'Neptune', because he was cheated by Laomedon of his promised reward when he and Apollo built the walls of the city

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Antandros

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Where Aeneas and his followers flee straight after Troy to build a fleet

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Penantes

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The household gods whose statues Aeneas takes with him, which come alive and interpret Apollo's prophecy

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Magni di

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The Great Gods, e.g. Apollo, Jupiter, Neptune, Juno, Venus, etc.

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Lycurgus

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The old king of Thrace

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Aeneadae

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The people of Aeneas' first town

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Venus

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The goddess, Aeneas' mother, who is associated with love

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Dionaea

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Daughter of Dione, i.e., Venus

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Nymphs

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Countryside demi-gods. Here, Hamadryads

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Gradivus pater

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Mars

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Mars

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God associated with war

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Getae

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A tribe of Thrace

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Dido

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The queen of Carthage, to whom Aeneas is relating his story (of which book 3 is a part)

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Pygmalion

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King of Tyre, who killed Dido's husband for his gold

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Sychaeus

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Dido's late husband

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The Thracian king

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Polymestor, who had married one of Priam's daughters, Iliona

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Austri

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The South Winds (pl of Auster)

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Apollo

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God associated with epic poetry (and other arts) and prophecy, as well as masculinity, archery, laurel, the sun, etc. Augustus associated himself with this god the most

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Delos

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An island sacred to Apollo

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Anius

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The ruler and priest of Delos

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Aegean

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The sea east of Greece. Also a reference to Aegae, where Homer's Poseidon lives

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Myconos and Gyarus

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Places to which Delos was joined

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Thymbra

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A place with which Apollo is associated (hence the epithet)

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Achilles

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A Greek hero during the Trojan war and key character in the Iliad

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Pergama

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The citadel of Troy

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Mount Cynthus

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The highest hill of Delos

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Crete

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The island south of Italy where the Trojans are not supposed to found their city. Jupiter's island because he was brought up there by Nymphs

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Ancient Mother

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Mother Earth, Tellus

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Mount Ida

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The mountain on Crete

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Teucer/Teucrus

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Trojan (from the Cretan ancestor, Teucer)

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Dardanidae

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Trojan (from the Italian, and more pertinent, ancestor, Dardanus)

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Rhoeteum

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A promontory near Troy

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Mount Cybelus

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Where Cybele the goddess lives

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Corybants

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The worshippers of Cybele

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The kingdom of Cnossos

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King Minos' capital on Crete

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Jupiter

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The king of the gods, associated with fate

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Neptune

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A god, associated with the sea

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Crete

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The island south of Greece, associated with Neptune

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Idomeneus

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A Greek in the Trojan war, who vowed during a storm to sacrifice the first thing he saw on land, which was his son, after which he was driven by pestilence to Calabria

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Ortygia

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Quail-island, i.e., Delos

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Cyclades

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Islands close to Delos

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Naxos

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A Cycladic island

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Bacchus

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A god, associated with revelry, wine and the theatre, etc.

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Paros

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A Cycladic island, with marble

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Hesperia

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The old Greek word for Italy

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Sirius

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The dog-star, associated with heat and fever

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Corythus

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The step-father of Dardanus, who was actually born of Electra and Jupiter

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Ausonia

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Central Italy

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Dicte

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The mountain on Crete where Jupiter was born

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Ilian

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Trojan

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Cassandra

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The prophetess who was cursed that her prophecies always be true, but never believed

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Palinurus

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Chief helmsman of the Trojans

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Strophades

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The islands inhabited by the Harpies

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Harpies

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Girl-faced birds

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Celaeno

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The seer-harpy who gives them a dark prophecy. Her name is Greek for 'dark'

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Ithaca

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Where the Greek Odysseus lives

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Ionian sea

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The sea to the west of Greece, which was the southern part of the Adriatic

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Styx

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The river in the underworld

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Laomedontians

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Trojans, after the king Laomedon who tricked Neptune and Apollo

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Zacynthos

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An island

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Laertes

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Odysseus' father

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Ulixes

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Ulysses, or Odysseus

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Leucate

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A promontory on the isle of Leucas, not far from Actium, with a temple of Apollo

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Actium

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Site for the Augustan battle against Mark Antony

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Abas

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One of the Greeks whose armour the Trojans captures

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Phaeacians

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The people whom Odysseus visits last on his voyage, and who take him back to Ithaca

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Chaon

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A part of Epirus where Buthrotum lay

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Buthrotum

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The town of Helenus and Andromache

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Helenus

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A son of Priam, the best of the augurs

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Pyrrhus

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The son of Achilles who held Helenus and Andromache and (after Helenus' prophecy) returned home by land, leaving the land to him, as well as Andromache

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Neoptolemus

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Pyrrhus

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Andromache

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Hector' widow, wife of Helenus

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Simois

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The Trojan river, and the mock version in Buthrotum

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Polyxena

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Priam's daughter, sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles

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Hermione

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The daughter of Helen and Menelaus

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Ledaean

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Of Leda, Helen's mother and therefore Hermione's grandmother

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Orestes

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Son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, who killed his mother and was thus pursued by the Furies

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Clarius

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Of Claros, where Apollo was worshipped

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Trinacria

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Sicily, because of its triangular shape

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Circe

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The witch who turned Odysseus' men into pigs

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Narycium

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A town of the Locri, near Euboea, who were shipwrecked and came to southern Italy

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Locri

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The people of Narycium, near Euboea, who were shipwrecked and came to southern Italy

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Sallentine plains

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In Calabria, in the part of Italy nearest Epirus

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Lyctos

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A town in eastern Crete

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Pelorus

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The promontory on the north-east tip of Sicily

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Scylla

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The six-headed monster from the Odyssey

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Charybdis

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The whirlpool from the Odyssey

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Pachynus

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The south-eastern promontory of Sicily

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The Sibyl

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The Sibyl of Cumae, Apollo's priestess, whose books (the Sibylline books) were transferred into Augustus' temple of Apollo on the Palatine

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Dodonaean

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In reference to the shrine of Jupiter at Dodona, not far from Buthrotum

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Astyanax

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Hector and Andromache's son

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Creusa

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Aeneas' wife, whom he loses in the confusion at the end of the Trojan war

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Acroceraunia

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On north Epirus

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Ceraunia

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Pertaining to Acroceraunia, in north Epirus

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Nox

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The embodiment of night

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Horae

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The embodiment of the Hours

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Orion

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The hunter constellation

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Pallas

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Athena, or Minerva, the goddess associated with wisdom and war

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Juno

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The wife of the king of gods, Jupiter

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Argive

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Pertaining to Argos, to which Juno was associated

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Tarentum

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A place in the arch of Italy

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Hercules

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The hero who supposedly returned to Greece from Spain via Tarentum

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Lacinian

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Pertaining to Juno because of her famous temple in Lacinium

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Caulonium

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A town near the toe of Italy

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Aetna

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Mount Etna, a volcano on Sicily

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Cyclops

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The one-eyed monsters in the Odyssey

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Enceladus

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One of the giants who rebelled against Jupiter, who was struck down by a bolt and buried under Mt. Inarime, with Typhon being buried under Etna. Virgil reverses the two.

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Achaemenides

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The emaciated Greek castaway, who was left on the cyclopes' island by Odysseus. An apparent invention of Virgil's

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Polyphemus

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The cyclops whom Odysseus and his men blind

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Eous

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The morning star

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Diana

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A goddess, associated with virginity, hunting, the woods and cypresses (which represent death as well)

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The bay of Megara

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The bay of Megara Hyblaea, a Greek colony on the east coast of Sicily

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Plemyrium

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The headland at the south of the bay of Syracuse. It's Greek name is the same as the Latin undosum

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Ortygia

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An island on the north side of the bay of Syracuse. Also the name of Delos

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Alpheus

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A river in South Greece. The river pursued the nymph Arethusa, and Diana changed her into a fountain so Alpheus followed her under the sea and united with her on Ortygia

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Helos

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The Greek word for marsh

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Camerina

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On the south coast of Sicily, a town where there was a marsh that caused pestilence. The people consulted an oracle that told them not to drain the marsh. They did, and an enemy marched across and defeated them

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Gela

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A town, from the river Gelas

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Acraga

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From the Greek akros (arduus), called Agrigentum by the Romans, located on the south coast of Sicily

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Selinus

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A town on the south west coast of Sicily

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Lilybaeum

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The western end of the south Sicilian coast

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Drepanum

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A place on the west coast of Sicily