Anchises

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In Greek and Roman mythology, Anchises (; Ancient Greek: Ἀγχίσης, romanized: Ankhísēs) was a member of the royal family of Troy, son of King Capys and lover of Aphrodite. He is most famous as the father of Aeneas and for his treatment in Virgil's Aeneid. He was a mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman goddess Venus). Zeus made her fall in love with Anchises while he was herding sheep at the foot of Mount Ida. One version is that Aphrodite pretended to be a Phrygian princess and seduced him, only to later reveal herself and inform him that they would have a son named Aeneas; Aphrodite had warned Anchises that if he told anyone about her being the mother of his child, Zeus would strike him down with his thunderbolt. He did not heed her warning and was struck with a thunderbolt, which in different versions either blinds him or kills him. The principal early narrative of Aphrodite's seduction of Anchises and the birth of Aeneas is the Homeric Hymn (5) to Aphrodite....

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