Anchises

Reading notes

• The Heroides §7 an aged father

  Anchises, Aeneas's father, the 'pious burden' borne from Troy; his presence seemed a pledge of Aeneas's good faith.

• The Heroides §7 Anchises

  Aeneas's father, for whose peaceful rest Dido prays even as she curses his son's voyage.

• The Heroides §16 Anchises

  The Trojan prince loved by Venus on Ida; father of Aeneas.

• The Festivals §4.proem Anchises

  Father of Aeneas by Venus, carried from burning Troy on his son's shoulders.

• Metamorphoses §9.263 Anchises

  The Trojan loved by Venus and father of Aeneas, whose years she bargains to renew.

• Metamorphoses §13.415 Anchises

  Aeneas's father, carried from Troy on his son's shoulders.

• Sorrows §2.1 Anchises

  The mortal loved by Venus, father of Aeneas; a divine-mortal love a temple-goer would recall.