Vergil: Book VII

1. Caieta

 

2. Neptune

 

3. Erato

 

4. Latinus Lavinia Turnus Amata

 

5. Lavinia

 

6. Latinus should not marry Lavinia to Turnus, but must marry her to a foreigner instead.

 

7. The Trojans piled the fruit they intended to eat on hard wheat

cakes, in lieu of tables. They were so hungry that when they finished the fruit, they kept

on going and ate the wheat cakes, too.

 

8. Iulus (Ascanius, son of Aeneas)

 

9. Saturn

 

10. Saturn was the god of the harvest -- "wheat" cakes -- get it?

 

11. Dardanus

 

12. fulfill their destiny

 

13. Allecto

 

14. Pluto

 

15. a snake -- in appearance Allecto resembles Medusa

 

16. Amata becomes mad with rage over the canceled marriage of Lavinia to Turnus.

She rages throughout the city inciting

mothers like her to riot. She even hides her daughter Lavinia in the

woods so she can't be married to a foreigner.

 

17. Turnus Calybe

 

18. a torch

 

19. Turnus orders all of his men to prepare for war over Lavinia, his

intended bride, now lost to him because of the foreigners.

 

20. Ascanius stag ( male deer )

 

21. Hades

 

22. Latinus Juno

 

23. Janus - one head, but a face on the front and the back

 

24. Mezentius, who will become an important character later Camilla, ditto

 

25. Camilla was a woman warrior, very rare.