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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Characters in the Aeneid (5 C, 109 P) W. ... Pages in category "Aeneid" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 ...
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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)
Messapus, (Greek: Μέσσαπος, Messapos) a character in Virgil's Aeneid, appears in Books VII to XII of the Latin epic poem. He was a son of Neptune, a famous tamer of horses, and king of Etruria, known for being one "whom no one can fell by fire or steel" (Mandelbaum, VII.911-912). [1]
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Venulus was an ambassador sent by Turnus of Ardea to the Greek hero Diomedes to request assistance in a war against Aeneas.He appears as a character in Vergil's Aeneid (in Books 8 and 11, where he was killed by Tarchon) and Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book 14); in both epics, he seems to serve as a proxy or counterpart of the goddess Venus (Paschalis 288, Barchiesi 119), whose name is incorporated ...
Numanus is a minor character in the Aeneid and is otherwise unknown in Latin literature; he appears only within the episode in which he is killed in Aeneid 9 (Aen. 9.590-637). [1] Ascanius Kills Numanus. Virgil uses Numanus to highlight and contrast ancient ethnic stereotypes.