# Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral — Character guide

> Key figures in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): The central narrative voice and focal character throughout the poems.
- [Niobe](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/niobe.md): A grieving mother whose children are slain by Apollo, featured in a poem from Ovid.
- [Mneme](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/mneme.md): A personification of memory and muse invoked in the poems.
- [Goliath of Gath](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/goliath.md): The Philistine giant defeated by David in the biblical poem.
- [David](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/david.md): The young shepherd who defeats Goliath and later becomes king.
- [Phillis Wheatley](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/phillis_wheatley.md): The author and narrator, an enslaved African American poet.
- [Susanna](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/susanna.md): A virtuous woman falsely accused, from the biblical apocrypha.
- [Britannia](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/britannia.md): The personification of Britain, addressed in patriotic poems.
- [Alphenor](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/alphenor.md): One of Niobe's sons slain by Apollo in the mythological poem.
- [George Whitefield](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/george_whitefield.md): A famous evangelist whose death is mourned in a poem.
- [Leonard](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/leonard.md): A character mentioned in a poem, possibly a friend or relative.
- [Aurora](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/aurora.md): The Roman goddess of dawn, personified in hymns.
- [Bosrah](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/bosrah.md): A biblical place personified in a poem about divine judgment.
- [Eliab](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/eliab.md): David's older brother who appears in the Goliath narrative.
- [Thomas Amory](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/thomas_amory.md): A clergyman whose sermons are praised in a poem.
- [Fancy](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/fancy.md): A personification of imagination and creativity.
- [Apollo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/apollo.md): The god of poetry and music, also slayer of Niobe's children.
- [Jesus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/jesus.md): Central figure of Christianity, referenced in religious poems.
- [Latona](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/latona.md): Mother of Apollo and Diana, invoked in the Niobe poem.
- [Damon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/damon.md): A pastoral character, possibly a shepherd or lover.
- [Maro](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/maro.md): A reference to the Roman poet Virgil, used as a poetic figure.
- [Jesse](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/jesse.md): Father of David, mentioned in the Goliath poem.
- [Sol](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/sol.md): The Roman sun god, personified in hymns.
- [Aeolus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/aeolus.md): God of the winds, invoked in a poem about a voyage.
- [Samuel Marshall](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/samuel_marshall.md): A clergyman whose death is commemorated in a poem.
- [Afric](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/afric.md): Personification of Africa, referenced in poems about the poet's origins.
- [Sewell](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/sewell.md): A clergyman whose death is mourned in a poem.
- [Philistia](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/philistia.md): The land of the Philistines, personified in the Goliath poem.
- [Israel](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/israel.md): The nation of Israel, personified in biblical poems.
- [Jove](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/jove.md): The Roman king of the gods, invoked in classical allusions.
- [Amphion](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/amphion.md): A mythical musician who built Thebes with his lyre.
- [Cadmus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/poems_on_various_subjects_religious_and_moral_se/characters/cadmus.md): Founder of Thebes, mentioned in the Niobe poem.

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