Anchises

Aeneas, Anchises, Creusa and Ascanius flee Troy

Anchises was the son of Capys of Dardania and Themiste, daughter of Ilus of Troy. He was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite (and in Roman mythology, the lover of Venus).

Nine months later, she presented him with the infant Aeneas. Aphrodite had warned him that if he boasted of the affair, he would be blasted by the thunderbolt of Zeus. He did and was crippled. He later had a mortal wife named Eriopis and he is credited with other children beside Aeneas. Homer, in the Iliad, mentions a daughter named Hippodameia, their eldest, who married her cousin Alcathous.

His forces, led by Aeneas, aided his cousin; King Priam of Troy, during the Trojan War. After the defeat of Troy , the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son Aeneas, accompanied by Aeneas' wife Creusa and small son Ascanius. Anchises himself died and was buried in Sicily many years later. Aeneas later visited the Underworld and saw his father again in the Elysian Fields.

Family

Dardanid Genealogy in Greek mythology

Names in Bold are Kings of Troy

Names in Italics are Kings of Dardania

Oceanus   Tethys                                                     Scamander   Idaea   Zeús   Electra                                                             Teucer   Arisbe                                                     Simoeis         Bataea       Dardanus                                                               Astyoche     Ericthonius       Ilus                         Tros   Callihroe                                                                                             Ganymede   Ilus   Eurydice             Assaracus   Hieromneme                                                                                 Leucippe   Laomedon         Themiste           Capys                                                                                             Priam   Hecuba   Hesione   Telamon   Anchises   Aphrodī́tē                                                           Tithonus       Hector   Andromache           Aeneas                                                 Astyanax                       Eos     Creusa                           Lavinia                                                                             Memnon of Aethiopia       Paris   Helen   Ascanius   Kings of Alba Longa                                             More               Legendary kings of Britain

Preceded by: Capys

King of Dardania Mythic

Succeeded by None (Title Abolished)