Anchises
(an-
ky
-seez) As the father of Aeneas by the goddess Venus, Anchises is a venerable
figure of wise counsel and instruction, above all in Book VI, when he reveals Rome's future to
Aeneas. Aeneas's respect for Anchises exemplifies an important aspect of the Roman virtue
pietas
,
the appropriate deference one shows to parents, gods, and country. Virgil strongly implies that the
respect paid by Aeneas to Anchises, especially in Book V in the form of funeral games, foreshadows
the
pietas
shown by Augustus to his father by adoption, Julius Caesar.
Andromach
ë
(an-
drah
-muh-kee) The widow of the Trojan prince Hector, and later the wife of his
brother, the prophet Helenus. She and her husband are visited by Aeneas in Buthrotum in Book III.
Anna
(
ahn
-nuh) The warmhearted and impulsive sister of Carthage's Queen Dido, Anna has little
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