Anchises
Zeus made her fall in love with Anchises while he was herding sheep at the foot of Mount Ida.
[5] Homer, in the Iliad, mentions a daughter named Hippodamia, their eldest ("the darling of her father and mother"), who married her cousin Alcathous.
[7] The subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
[7] Homer's Iliad mentions another Anchises, a wealthy native of Sicyon in Greece and father of Echepolus.
[8] It begins by describing how only the three virgin goddesses (Athena, Artemis, and Hestia) are immune to Aphrodite's powers.
[8] Not even Zeus was able to escape her powers and to put her in her place, he caused her to lust after the handsome mortal Anchises.
[8] When Anchises realizes her identity, he is terrified and full of regret and says that no good comes from sleeping with a goddess.
Even though Anchises is dead for most of the epic, he still makes multiple appearances in it, oftentimes to advise Aeneas.
[7] During the fall of Troy, Aeneas makes his way home to save Anchises, his wife Creusa, and his son Ascanius.
[7] Before Aeneas does, he is visited in his dreams by their household gods who inform him that they are in the wrong place and must go to Italy.
[7] Storms force them to stop in Sicily, and Aeneas recalls that it has been a year since his father died, who had been buried with great honor.
[7] After the funeral games, the Trojan women who have grown tired of traveling set fire to the ships.
[7] Even though most ships are saved by Jupiter, Aeneas loses heart and contemplates staying in Sicily.
[7] He encourages Aeneas to continue his journey, informing him that he should leave the weary Trojans in Sicily and take the strongest with him to Italy.
The story begins by briefly describing that Aeneas, Anchises, Ascanius, and other Trojan refugees fled Troy, traveled to Antandros, then to Thrace, and finally arrived in Delos.
(13.639–642)[9] Anius describes that his daughters received the ability to transform that which they touched into grain, wine, and olive oil, but this gift only caused them misery as the Greeks kidnapped them so as to take advantage of their powers.
First, in 14.82-84: "And fleeing that new city in the sands, Aeneas once again returned to Eryx, the royal residence of his true friend Acestes; here, at Anchises' tomb he honored his father with gift offerings.
"[9] This makes reference to the funeral games Aeneas held for his deceased father Anchises in Book 5 of the Aeneid.
And in 14.116-118: "Aeneas did as he was told and saw the underworld's formidable resources and his ancestral spirits and the shade of that great-spirited and venerable man, [his] father Anchises.
"[9] This makes reference to the Aeneas' journey into the underworld, where he meets with the specter of his late father Anchises, in Book 6 of the Aeneid.
