He was the husband of Theano, daughter of Cisseus, king of Thrace, and father of nineteen sons, of whom the most known were Polybus, Acamas, Agenor, Polydamas, Helicaon, Archilochus, and Laodocus. Aeneas later visited Hades and saw his father again.Ī Trojan prince related to Priam. After the fall of Troy, Anchises was carried from the city by his son, Aeneas. Trojan prince, father of the hero Aeneas by Aphrodite. Queen of Latium and mother of Lavinia, whom Aeneas married. One of the Furies called up from the Underworld in the Aeneid. After Troy's fall, he journeyed to Italy, where he founded a dynasty that eventually produced Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome. Son of Aphrodite (Venus) and Anchises, a mortal Trojan prince, and the hero of Virgil's Aeneid. It is decorat ed with scenes from the glorious future of Rome.A companion and friend of Aeneas in his wanderings, and styled by Vergil fidus Achates, so that his fidelity has become proverbial. After Aeneas sets out to speak to them, Venus comes down and gives him some armor made by the god Vulcan. He also tells Aeneas to join forces with the Etruscans. Aeneas does as he's to ld and Evander lends him some troops, including his own son, Pallas. While the Italians are gathering allies, the god of the River Tiber appears to Aeneas in a dream and t ells him to make an alliance with the Arcadian King Evander who lives upriver. This provokes a war between t he Italians and the Trojans. Then she tricks Ascanius to shoot a stag kept as a pet by Latinus's gamekeeper. Seeing her opportunity, Juno sends a Fury down to make both Amata and Turnus crazed with rage. The problem is that Amata, Latinus's wife, wants their daughter to marry the local prince Turnus. As it happens, Latinus, the local king, has received an oracle saying his only child, Lavinia, must marry a foreign husband he offers her to Aeneas in marriage.
Fired up by what he has seen in the underworld, Aeneas sails to Latium. He tries to talk to he r but she rejects him. She leads Aeneas down to t he underworld, where he sees a lot of spooky stuff, talks with his father Anchises, and sees t he spirits of future Roman heroes, waiting to be born. Their first stop is Cumae, in the Bay of Naples, where they visit the Sibyl, a prophetess. Realizing that not everyone is as jazzed about going to Italy as he is, Aeneas leaves some people in Sicily and sails on to Italy with his A-team. While the Trojans hold athletic contests in the old man's honor, Juno convinces the Trojan women to set fire to the ships. At the exact place where they buried Anchises a year before.
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