Anchises
mythological figure · 5 works · 24 mentions · 56 anchored passages
Sire Anchises · father · Father Anchises · my sire · Anchises' shade · Anchises' spirit · O best of sires! · Prince Anchises · aged sire · dear father
in the texts
Aeneid
Aeneas's father, mentioned as part of his lineage.
Art thou Aeneas, great Anchises' son, whom lovely Venus by the Phrygian stream of Simois brought forth unto the day?
vowed he could never, after fallen Troy, live longer on, or bear an exile's woe.
For many a year gone by, accursed of Heaven, I tarry in this world a useless burden, since that fatal hour when Jove, of gods the Sire and men the King, his lightnings o'er me breathed and blasting fire.
Iliad
Mortal father of Aeneas, with whom Aphrodite lay upon Mount Ida.
Aeneas, whom Aphrodite bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida.
And now Aeneas, king of men, would have perished then and there, had not his mother, Zeus' daughter Aphrodite, who had conceived him by Anchises when he was herding cattle, been quick to mark, and thrown her two white arms about the body of her dear son.
King Anchises stole the blood by putting his mares to them without Laomedon's knowledge, and they bore him six foals.
Theogony
A mortal hero, lover of Aphrodite, father of Aeneas.
And Cytherea with the beautiful crown was joined in sweet love with the hero Anchises and bore Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with its many wooded glens.
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Anchises is the handsome Trojan-descended mortal on Ida whom Aphrodite, under Zeus's influence, seduces and later instructs about their son Aeneas.
And so he put in her heart sweet desire for Anchises who at that time among the steep hills of many-fountained Ida was tending cattle, and in shape was like the immortal gods.
-->“Anchises, most glorious of mortal men, take courage and be not too fearful in your heart.
But she herself came to the neat-built shelters, and him she found left quite alone in the homestead —the hero Anchises who was comely as the gods.
De virtute et vitio
A legendary prince invoked in a quoted verse whose ulcerous wound produced a foul discharge that soiled his purple robe, used to illustrate that outward splendor cannot mask an inner corruption or affliction.
For as odors perfume threadbare coats and poor rags, while Prince Anchises’s ulcer sent forth a loathsome purulence, When the foul tent dript on his purple robe, even so every state and condition of life, if accompanied with virtue, is undisturbed and delightful.