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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

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, including Bernini. In some legends, Anchises and his wife later founded Venice or Padua. Author not available, ANCHISES. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Anchises
Anchises •fasces • calces • heartsease • Albigenses , amanuenses, menses, Waldenses •syllepses...vortices •vertices • parentheses • syntheses • hypotheses , protheses •cervices • Anchises , Cambyses, cicatrices, crises, Pisces ... Read more

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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. Read more

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	LOOKING BACK ...(Features) ; This picture of Blue Funnel Line's SS Anchises Football Team in Sydney in 1921 was sent in by EM Williamson of Rhos on Sea. Her uncle Richard Swan, second left in the centre... Read more
	Sports and bier ; ...first annual Funeral Games, held in Sicily, were a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the death of Aeneas's father, Anchises. With brows wreathed in myrtle and a quick prayer to the winds, the vagrant children of Priam celebrated all the talent Ilium... Read more
	Sons of South: city suckers? ; ...third 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 lanes... Read more
	Ancient & modern ; ...suicide. After a visit to the underworld to visit his father Anchises, who reveals to him the whole future of Rome, Aeneas and his...be guided by its will'. But another tone is also heard. When Anchises in the underworld sees that there will be civil war between... Read more
	LES SAVY FAV+THUNDERBIRDS ARE NOW!+RAHIM ; ...observation, made deep in the Bowery's first mosh of 2005, that this art-punk bill played out like Lorenzo Bernini's Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (marble, 1618-1620). Stacked by age, each younger band resembled its immediate elder's former self. Cool-jerk... Read more
	Only reprimand for 3 supporters of mutiny.(Provincial News) ; ...violations that may warrant severe penalty, the three soldiers, identified as Capt. Nerelito Pascual and Lieutenant Senior Grade Anchises Diola and Roland Allan Uy, will get no more than a reprimand. Pascual is assigned at the Armys 53rd Engineer Brigade, Diola... Read more
	SITUATIONAL ETHICS ; ...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... Read more
	The old master's endurance ; ...shows any sign of quitting. Some Republicans have murmured that Thurmond, the party's nonagenerian patriarch, resembles father Anchises in the Aeneid, a burden to his son fleeing the flames of Troy. A dignified burden, but a burden nonetheless. Ol' Strom told... Read more
	RECONCILING EAST AND WEST IN VIRGIL'S AENEID ; ...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. 545-6... Read more
	Arms and the poet: the resurrection of Vergil.(The Aeneid)(Critical essay) ; ...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-be... Read more

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