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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Anchises (Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ????s??) was a son of Capys
Capys

In Greek mythology, Capys was a name attributed to three individuals:*A son of Assaracus and Aigesta or Themiste or Clytodora or Hieromneme, and father of Anchises and so grandfather of Aeneas....
 and Themiste
Themiste

In Greek mythology, Themiste was the daughter of Ilus and Eurydice of Troy, sister of Laomedon and mother of Anchises by her husband Capys, son of Assaracus....
 (daughter of Ilus, son of Tros) or Hieromneme
Hieromneme

Hieromneme was a minor naiad of Asia Minor in Greek mythology. She was a daughter of the river-god Simoeis and the wife of Assaracus, by whom she bore Capys....
, a naiad
Naiad

In Greek mythology, the Naiads or Naiades were a type of nymph who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, and brooks.They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolid....
. His major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite
Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the classical Greek mythology goddess of love, sex, and beauty. According to Greek oral poet Hesiod, she was born when Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus....
 (and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus
Venus

Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus , the Roman mythology goddess of love....
). One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian
Phrygian

Phrygian can refer to:*A person from Phrygia*Phrygian cap once characteristic of the region* Phrygian language*Phrygian mode in music* Phrygian Valley, a historic location in northwestern Turkey...
 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
Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
.

Anchises was a prince from Dardania
Dardania

Dardania may refer to:* Dardania , the Dardanelles separating Thrace from Anatolia* Dardania , in the Balkans of Southeast Europe...
, a territory neighbouring Troy
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
.






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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Anchises (Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ????s??) was a son of Capys
Capys

In Greek mythology, Capys was a name attributed to three individuals:*A son of Assaracus and Aigesta or Themiste or Clytodora or Hieromneme, and father of Anchises and so grandfather of Aeneas....
 and Themiste
Themiste

In Greek mythology, Themiste was the daughter of Ilus and Eurydice of Troy, sister of Laomedon and mother of Anchises by her husband Capys, son of Assaracus....
 (daughter of Ilus, son of Tros) or Hieromneme
Hieromneme

Hieromneme was a minor naiad of Asia Minor in Greek mythology. She was a daughter of the river-god Simoeis and the wife of Assaracus, by whom she bore Capys....
, a naiad
Naiad

In Greek mythology, the Naiads or Naiades were a type of nymph who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, and brooks.They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers, and the very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes, such as pre-Mycenaean Lerna in the Argolid....
. His major claim to fame in Greek mythology is that he was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite
Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the classical Greek mythology goddess of love, sex, and beauty. According to Greek oral poet Hesiod, she was born when Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus....
 (and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus
Venus

Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus , the Roman mythology goddess of love....
). One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian
Phrygian

Phrygian can refer to:*A person from Phrygia*Phrygian cap once characteristic of the region* Phrygian language*Phrygian mode in music* Phrygian Valley, a historic location in northwestern Turkey...
 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
Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
.

Anchises was a prince from Dardania
Dardania

Dardania may refer to:* Dardania , the Dardanelles separating Thrace from Anatolia* Dardania , in the Balkans of Southeast Europe...
, a territory neighbouring Troy
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
. He had a mortal wife named Eriopis, according to the scholiasts, and he is credited with other children beside Aeneas. Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
, in the Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
, mentions a daughter named Hippodameia, their eldest ("the darling of her father and mother"), who married her cousin Alcathous
Alcathous

Alcathous was the name of several people in Greek mythology:*Alcathous, son of Pelops, killed the Cithaeronian lion.*Alcathous, son of Aesyetes, husband of Hippodameia, the daughter of Anchises and sister of Aeneas, who was educated in the house of Alcathous....
.

Anchises bred his mares with the divine stallions owned by King Laomedon
Laomedon

In Greek mythology, Laomedon was a Troy king, son of Ilus, brother of Ganymede and father of Priam, Astyoche, Lampus, Hicetaon, Clytius, Cilla , Proclia, Aethilla, Clytodora, and Hesione....
. However, he made the mistake of bragging about his liaison with Aphrodite, and as a result Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
, the king of the gods, hit him with a thunderbolt which left him lame.

After the defeat of Troy in the Trojan War
Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
, the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son Aeneas, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa
Creusa

In Greek mythology, four people had the name Creusa ; the name means simply "princess"....
, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius
Ascanius

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Ascanius was the son of Aeneas and Creusa. After the Trojan War, as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy, taking his father Anchises and his child Ascanius with him, though Creusa died during the escape....
 (the subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci
Federico Barocci

Federico Barocci was an Italy Renaissance Painting and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen....
 in the Galleria Borghese
Galleria Borghese

The Borghese Gallery in Rome is an art gallery housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana, a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens....
 in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
). Anchises himself died and was buried in Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 many years later. Aeneas later visited Hades
Hades

Hades refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld. Hades in Homer referred just to the god; the genitive case , Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades"....
 and saw his father again in the Elysian Fields
Elysium

In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Greek Underworld . The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous....
. Homer's Iliad mentions another Anchises, a wealthy native of Sicyon
Sicyon

Sikyon was an ancient Greece city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth, Greece and Achaea. The king-list given by Pausanias comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus; the penultimate king of the list, Agamemnon, compels the submission of Sicyon to Mycenae; after him comes the Dorian usurper Pha...
 in Greece and father of Echepolus.

See also

  • Achish
    Achish

    Achish is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for two Philistines rulers of Gath . It may mean "angry," and is perhaps only a general title of royalty, applicable to the Philistine kings....
     - a royal name or title in the Bible
    Bible

    The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
    , perhaps a cognate of Anchises.
  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
     and other prominent Romans
    Ancient Rome

    Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
     claimed to be descended from Venus
    Venus

    Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus , the Roman mythology goddess of love....
     (the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite) and Anchises.