Anchises (????s??)was volgens de Griekse mythologie een zoon van Capys en Themis.
Vanwege zijn uitzonderlijke, bijna goddelijke schoonheid verkreeg hij de aandacht van de godin Aphrodite. Bij haar verwekte hij Aeneas. Zij verbood hem dit te vertellen, maar hij deed het toch. Als straf werd hij door de bliksem getroffen en raakte verlamd. Bij de inname van Troje wist Aeneas te ontkomen met zijn vader op zijn nek. Ze gingen naar Italië, maar Anchises stierf onderweg en werd begraven op Sicilië. Aeneas bezocht later de Hades en zag zijn vader terug op de Elyseese velden.
Anchises is één van de hoofdfiguren uit de Aeneis van Vergilius. Ook komt hij voor in de Ilias van Homerus.
In Greek mythology, Anchises (/æ?'ka?si?z/; Ancient Greek: ????s??) was the son of Capys and Themiste (daughter of Ilus, who was son of Tros). He was a prince from Dardania, a territory neighbouring Troy.
His major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite (and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus). One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian princess and seduced him for nearly two weeks of lovemaking. Anchises learned that his lover was a goddess only nine months later, when she revealed herself and presented him with the infant Aeneas. Aphrodite had warned him that if he boasted of the affair, he would be blasted by the thunderbolt of Zeus. He did and was scorched and/or crippled. One version has this happening after he bred his mares with the divine stallions owned by King Laomedon. The principal early narrative of Aphrodite's seduction of Anchises and the birth of Aeneas is the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. According to the Bibliotheca, Anchises and Aphrodite had another son, Lyrus, who died childless. He later had a mortal wife named Eriopis, according to the scholiasts, and he is credited with other children beside Aeneas and Lyrus. Homer, in the Iliad, mentions a daughter named Hippodameia, their eldest ("the darling of her father and mother"), who married her cousin Alcathous.
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, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius (the subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci in the Galleria Borghese in Rome). Anchises himself died and was buried in Sicily many years later. Aeneas later visited Hades and saw his father again in the Elysian Fields.
Homer's Iliad mentions another Anchises, a wealthy native of Sicyon in Greece and father of Echepolus.
Er ist verheiratet mit Aphrodite "the Olympian" Pandemos.
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