Anchises
Anchises ( ancient Greek Ἀγχίσης ) is a figure from Greek mythology , known as the beautiful king of Dardanos near Troy , a scion of the ancient Trojan royal family, son of Kapys and Themiste (daughter of Ilos ) and brother of Laocoon . He was the father of Hippodameia , Lyros (who died childless) and the Trojan hero Aeneas , whom he had fathered with the goddess Aphrodite when she had once appeared to him on the Ida in the form of a Phrygian shepherdess (Kythereia).
Because Zeus had let the goddess of love burn into insatiable love for Anchises. Although this was extraordinarily beautiful, Aphrodite was ashamed of a love for a mortal from which she could not resist. So she forbade him to tell others about it. In a wine frenzy, however, he broke the ban and was therefore paralyzed (and / or blinded) by a lightning bolt from Zeus . At the end of the Trojan War , Aeneas had to carry him out of the burning Troy on his shoulders.
Virgil reports that Anchises was instrumental in ensuring that Aeneas' wanderings lasted so long that he misinterpreted an oracle of Apollo and took the "old mother" to be Crete , but actually meant Italy . Anchises died on Aeneas' wanderings in Drepanon in Sicily . His funeral ceremony became part of the rites of the Romans.
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- Homer , Iliad 2,819-821; 5,260-273; 20.215-240
- Libraries of Apollodorus 3,12,2; Epitome 5.21
- Ovid , Metamorphoses 13,623-642; 14.82-119
- Virgil , Aeneid
literature
- Otto Rossbach : Anchises 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2106-2109.
- Emil Wörner : Anchises 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 337-339 ( digitized version ).
