Anchises

Family: Trojan · Role: father of Æneas · First appears: Fable 80

Life events

Æneas visits the underworld, sees Anchises, and learns the region’s laws and future war dangers.(Fable104 · 📍 Avernus)
- With: Æneas
- “he beheld the power of the dread Orcus, and his own ancestors, and the aged ghost of the magnanimous Anchises; he learned, too, the ordinances of {those} regions, and what dangers would have to be undergone by him in his future wars.”

with Venus (interaction) “Venus, too, and she made an offer to renew the years of Anchises.”
with Venus (interaction) “a concern for the future influenced Venus, too, and she made an offer to renew the years of Anchises.”

child: Æneas (Anchises is identified as Æneas's father.) “and he enters the shores of Cumæ, regions abounding in the sedge of the swamp, and the cavern of the long-lived Sibyl[13], and entreats {her}, that through Avernus, he may visit the shade of his father. But she raises her countenance, a long time fixed on the ground; and at length, inspired by the influence of the God, she says, ‘Thou dost request a great thing, O hero, most renowned by thy achievements, whose right hand has been proved by the sword, whose affection {has been proved} by the flames. Yet, Trojan, lay aside {all} apprehension, thou shalt obtain thy request; and under my guidance thou shalt visit the abodes of Elysium, the most distant realms of the universe, and the beloved shade of thy parent. To virtue, no path is inaccessible.’ {Thus} she spoke, and she pointed out a branch refulgent with gold, in the woods of the Juno of Avernus[14], and commanded him to pluck it from its stem. Æneas obeyed; and he beheld the power of the dread Orcus, and his own ancestors, and the aged ghost of the magnanimous Anchises;”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.