person
Anchises
also: Ἀγχίσης
A Trojan herdsman of the royal line, so beautiful that Zeus makes Aphrodite fall in love with him; their union on Mount Ida, recounted in Hymn 5, produces Aeneas, and Anchises is warned never to tell whose son the child truly is.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §5.1 Anchises
A Trojan herdsman of the royal line, so beautiful that Zeus makes Aphrodite fall in love with him; their union on Mount Ida, recounted in Hymn 5, produces Aeneas, and Anchises is warned never to tell whose son the child truly is.