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Anchises
Anchises , in Greek mythology, member of the ruling family of Troy; father of Aeneas by Aphrodite. When Anchises boasted of the goddess's love, Zeus crippled or, in some versions of the legend, blinded him. When Troy fell, Aeneas rescued his father in a scene often depicted by later painters, includ... Read more
Aeneas
Aeneas , in Greek mythology, a Trojan, son of Anchises and Aphrodite. After the fall of Troy he escaped, bearing his aged father on his back. He stayed at Carthage with Queen Dido, then went to Italy, where his descendants founded Rome. The deeds of Aeneas are the substance of the great Roman epic... Read more
Aphrodite
Aphrodite , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Homer designated her the child of Zeus and Dione. Hesiod's account of her birth is more popular: she supposedly rose from the foam of the sea where Uranus' genitals had fallen after he had been mutilated by Kronos. ... Read more

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Anchises
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Anchises , in Greek mythology, member of the ruling...father of Aeneas by Aphrodite. When Anchises boasted of the goddess's love, Zeus...including Bernini. In some legends, Anchises and his wife later founded Venice or Padua...
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...of the grete Troye. Eneas departed berynge his olde fader anchises vpon his sholdres / his lityl son yolus on his honde. 1582...including most of his proper nouns such as fraunce , vyrgyle , anchises , but excluding Eneydos , Eneas , Troye ), Mulcaster's lower...
Aphrodite
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Anteros. She was the mother of Hermaphroditus by Hermes and of Priapus by Dionysus. Zeus caused her to love the shepherd Anchises, by whom she bore Aeneas. Adonis, in whose legend Aphrodite appears as a goddess of fertility, also won her favors. It...
Sisson, C. H.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...at Bristol University. His volumes of poetry include The London Zoo (1961), Numbers (1965), Metamorphoses (1968), Anchises (1976), In the Trojan Ditch: Collected Poems and Selected Translations (1974), God Bless Karl Marx! (1988), Antidotes...
Aeneas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Aeneas , in Greek mythology, a Trojan, son of Anchises and Aphrodite. After the fall of Troy he escaped, bearing his aged father on his back. He stayed at Carthage with Queen Dido...

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Anchises
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Anchises in Greek legend, the ruler of Dardanus and father of Aeneas ; according to the Aeneid , when Troy fell he was carried out of the burning ruins on his son's shoulders.
Bernini, Gianlorenzo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...his early career. For Cardinal Scipione Borghese he executed a remarkable series of life-size marble sculptures: Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1618–19), the Rape of Proserpine (1621–2), David (1623), and Apollo and Daphne...
Blindness
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary 74. Blindness Agib dervish who lost an eye. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights ] Anchises blinded by lightning. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical , 22] Blind Pew David, the blind beggar. [Br. Lit.: Treasure Island...
Boastfulness
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Legend: Brewer Dictionary , 16] Ajax (the greater) archetypal Miles Gloriosus . [Br. Lit.: Troilus and Cressida ] Anchises Trojan prince; crippled for boasting of intimacy with Aphrodite. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 22] Armado verbose braggart...
Loyalty
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Aeneid ] Adam family retainer; offers Orlando his savings. [Br. Lit.: As You Like It ] Aeneas carried his father Anchises from burning Troy. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid ] alexandrite type of chrysoberyl typifying undying devotion. [Gem Symbolism...
Aeneas
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Aeneas in classical mythology, a Trojan leader, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, and legendary ancestor of the Romans. When Troy fell to the Greeks he escaped and after wandering for many years eventually reached Italy. The story of his voyage is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid .
Guide
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary 312. Guide Akela leader of wolfpack. [Br. Lit.: The Jungle Books ] Anchises Aeneas ’ guide in Elysium. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid ] Anubis “ Pathfinder ” ; conducted dead to judgment...
Pugilism
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...x2019; s companions; noted for his boxing skill. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid ] Entellus powerful Sicilian boxer; won match for Anchises against Dares. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid ] Eryx great boxer; killed at own game by challenger, Hercules. [Gk. Myth.: Howe...

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RECONCILING EAST AND WEST IN VIRGIL'S AENEID
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...his care for and deference towards his aged father Anchises. After Anchises' death, Aeneas will institute divine honours for...for his son Julus, who at the funeral games for Anchises leads the boys' equestrian display (Aeneid 5...
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Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...to the underworld. There he meets the shade of his father, Anchises, who takes him on a guided tour and reveals to him the great...to slog through a long war in Italy in order to secure it. Anchises is particularly enthusiastic about one handsome Roman-to...
SITUATIONAL ETHICS
Magazine article from: Artforum; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...through the poem, he ventures to the underworld, where he finds his father, Anchises, who points out a procession of spirits who will populate Roman history. Anchises hails Aeneas by a name that inverts and telescopes time, for it has no meaning...
Ancient & modern
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/10/2004; ; 591 words ; ...suicide. After a visit to the underworld to visit his father Anchises, who reveals to him the whole future of Rome, Aeneas and...guided by its will'. But another tone is also heard. When Anchises in the underworld sees that there will be civil war between...
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A Noble's Notebooks.
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 6/26/2007; 700+ words ; ...himself is seen in Poggio Bracciolini's Federico da Montefeltro on Horseback (ca. 1472). Both Aeneas Saving His Father, Anchises, and Son, Iulus (ca. 1450-1475) and Saint John (ca. 1480), with its luxuriant palette, revel in the kind of meticulous...
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Magazine article from: Goethe Yearbook; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Virgil's poetry on its own terms rather than as an imitation of Homer. Symbolic of these changes, Atherton concludes by pointing to the sympathetic portrayal of Anchises and Aeneas in Christa Wolf's novel Kassandra (1983). He might al
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/10/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...with 10 percent. The lingering image was Virgilian: noble Aeneas, a jabbering Koch draped over his shoulders like father Anchises, fleeing the flames of Troy. The Clinton-Gore ticket, which geographically unites the banks of the Mississippi and the...
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/27/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...politics with the DLC's favorite Northern politician, former Mayor Ed Koch, draped over Gore's shoulders, like father Anchises hobbling Aeneas as they fled the flames of Troy. Another New Yorker, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, stole the show here...
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