Editing Anchises (section)

{{Short description|Mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite}}
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[[File:William Blake Richmond - Venus and Anchises - Google Art Project.jpg|[[William Blake Richmond]]'s ''Venus and Anchises'' (1889 or 1890).|thumb|350px]]

In [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology]], '''Anchises''' ({{IPAc-en|æ|n|ˈ|k|aɪ|s|iː|z}};<ref>{{cite Merriam-Webster|Anchises}}</ref> {{langx|grc|Ἀγχίσης|Ankhísēs}}) was a member of the royal family of [[Troy]]. He was said to have been the son of King [[Capys of Dardania]] and [[Themiste]], daughter of [[Ilus]], who was son of [[Tros (mythology)|Tros]]. He is most famous as the father of [[Aeneas]] and for his treatment in [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]''.<ref name=Brit>"Anchises" in ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica|The New Encyclopædia Britannica]]''. Chicago: [[Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.]], 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 377.</ref> Anchises' brother was [[Acoetes]], father of the priest [[Laocoön]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#135 135]</ref>

He was a mortal lover of the goddess [[Aphrodite]] (equivalent to the Roman goddess [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]]). Zeus made her fall in love with Anchises while he was herding sheep at the foot of [[Mount Ida]].<ref name=":5">Roman, L., & Roman, M. (2010). {{Google books|tOgWfjNIxoMC|Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology.|page=59}}</ref> One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a [[Phrygians|Phrygian]] princess and seduced him, only to later reveal herself and inform him that they would have a son named Aeneas; Aphrodite had warned Anchises that [[Taboo#In religion and mythology|if he told anyone]] about her being the mother of his child, Zeus would strike him down with his thunderbolt. He did not heed her warning and was struck with a thunderbolt, which in different versions either blinds him or kills him.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Rose|first=H. J.|date=Jan 1924|title=Anchises and Aphrodite|journal=The Classical Quarterly|volume=18 |pages=11–16 |doi=10.1017/S0009838800006716 |s2cid=171119955 }}</ref> The principal early narrative of Aphrodite's seduction of Anchises and the birth of [[Aeneas]] is the ''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn (5) to Aphrodite]]''. According to the ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]]'', Anchises and Aphrodite had another son, Lyrus, who died childless. He later had a mortal wife named [[Eriopis]], according to the [[scholia]]sts, and he is credited with other children beside Aeneas and Lyrus.<ref name=":1" /> [[Homer]], in the ''[[Iliad]]'', mentions a daughter named [[Hippodamia (mythology)|Hippodamia]], their eldest ("the darling of her father and mother"), who married her cousin Alcathous.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=The Iliad of Homer|last1=Homer|last2=Lattimore|first2=Richmond|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|year=2011|isbn=9780226470498|location=Chicago|pages=303, 480}}</ref>

After the defeat of Troy in the [[Trojan War]], the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son [[Aeneas]], accompanied by Aeneas' wife [[Creusa (wife of Aeneas)|Creusa]], who died in the escape attempt, and small son [[Ascanius]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Aeneid|last1=Virgil|last2=Ahl|first2=Frederick|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=9780199231959|location=Oxford}}</ref> The subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by [[Federico Barocci]] in the [[Galleria Borghese]] in [[Rome]]. The rescue is also mentioned in a speech in Shakespeare's [[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]] when [[Gaius Cassius Longinus|Cassius]] attempts to persuade [[Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger|Brutus]] to murder [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]]. Anchises himself died and was buried in [[Sicily]] many years later.<ref name=":3" /> Aeneas later visited [[Hades]] and saw his father again in the [[Elysium|Elysian Fields]].<ref name=":3" />

Homer's ''Iliad'' mentions another Anchises, a wealthy native of [[Sicyon]] in Greece and father of Echepolus.<ref name=":2" />