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Characters in Book VI of the Aeneid
- Julius CaesarListen to Julius Caesar before the knives, the pirate captive turned general who bet everything on crossing one small, forbidden river.
- AugustusOn the 8th of May 44 BC, a teenager named Gaius Octavius accepted a dead man's will and, with it, the most dangerous inheritance in the Roman world.
- TheseusTheseus, the legendary hero of Athens, walked into a labyrinth armed with nothing but a hidden sword and a ball of thread.
- CerberusCerberus, the hound of Hades, sits at one of the most consequential thresholds in all of Greek mythology: the gate between the living world and the realm of…
- Musaeus of AthensMusaeus of Athens left behind one of antiquity's most tantalizing puzzles: a name revered by Plato, Euripides, and Socrates himself, yet attached to a life…
- PasiphaëPasiphaë was the queen of Crete, a daughter of the sun god Helios, and one of the most unsettling figures in all of Greek mythology.
- Lucius Junius BrutusLucius Junius Brutus died around 500 BC, and yet the questions his life raises have never stopped troubling historians. Was he a real man, or a myth invented…
- IxionIxion ruled the ancient tribe of Thessaly known as the Lapiths. His lineage traces back to Perimele and either Ares, Leonteus, Antion, or Phlegyas.
- OrpheusOrpheus was a Thracian bard whose music, the ancient Greeks believed, could move rivers from their courses and coax rocks into dance.
- Phaedra (mythology)In Greek mythology, Phaedra was a Cretan princess. Her name derives from the Greek word phaidros, which means bright. She stood as the daughter of King Minos…
- Numa PompiliusThe 21st of April 753 BC marked the traditional founding of Rome, and on that same day Numa Pompilius was born. He was the youngest of four sons born to…
- Marcus Furius CamillusMarcus Furius Camillus was hailed as the second founder of Rome, a man credited with saving the city from Gallic invaders, capturing a legendary Etruscan…