Anchises

Anchises is the father of the Roman hero Aeneas and a Trojan who has an affair with the goddess Venus or Aphrodite. According to mythology, Zeus was angry at Aphrodite for causing him to have sex; as a punishment to Aphrodite, Zeus caused her to have sexual relations with a human which, according to mythology, was beneath the dignity of a goddess. But Anchises was respectful. He realized he had no choice but to submit to the superior power of the goddess, but at the same time, he didn't ask for favors or immortality or any other special privileges, and as a result of his humility and knowing his status as a human, he avoided the [[fate] of many other humans who had relations with gods and goddesses, which was usually death. Anchises lived; and his son Aeneas carried him out of the burning city of Troy which was sacked at the end of the Trojan War. Anchises, according to the Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil, dies on the island of Sicily, and while in the Underworld, is visited by his living son Aeneas and is able to tell his son about the glory of the kingdom of Rome that Aeneas will found. In the Aeneid, Anchises represents the past, while Aeneas' son Ascanius represents the future, according to Classics scholar Elizabeth Vandiver.

References

• see Greek mythology, Teaching Company course, by Elizabeth Vandiver.