TARQUIN - Name of Etruscan kings.

TARTARUS - The part of the underworld where wicked shades were punished.

TENEDOS - An island off the coast of Troy where the Greeks hide before they attack Troy.

THRACE - A region just north of Troy.

TIBER - River that runs through Rome.

TURNUS - Chief of the Rutulians and Aeneas' major enemy in Latium. Killed by Aeneas.

TYRE - Phoenician city.

TYRRHENIAN SEA - Part of the Mediterranean that touches the west coast of Italy.

ULYSSES - Greek hero who fought in Trojan War and who is the subject of the Odyssey, in which his ten-year effort to get home is described.

VENUS - Goddess of love and Aeneas' mother.

VESTA - Roman goddess of the hearth.

VOLSCIANS - A tribe in Italy, hostile to the Trojans.

VULCAN - Venus' husband and smith of the gods. He makes armor for Aeneas.

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