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ID: 901000666
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000666
Record Type: Character/Person

Anchises (Greco-Roman character)

Note: In Greek legend, member of the junior branch of the royal family of Troy: While he was tending his sheep on Mount Ida, the goddess Aphrodite met him and, enamoured of his beauty, bore him Aeneas. For revealing the name of the child’s mother, Anchises was killed or struck blind by lightning. In later legend and in Virgil’s Aeneid, he was conveyed out of Troy on the shoulders of his son Aeneas, whose descendants founded Rome, and he died in Sicily.

Names:
Anchises (Greco-Roman character) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
Ἀγχίσης (Greco-Roman character) (English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Greek iconography> (P)
........<Greek characters> (G)
............Anchises (Greco-Roman character) (I)
Related Iconography:
is actor for .... Aeneas and Anchises
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek narratives, Story of Aeneas (Greek narratives), Aeneas and Anchises (Greek narrative)) [901001806]
parent of .... Aeneas
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Aeneas (Greco-Roman character)) [901000142]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... literary character
.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Ancient Greek (culture or style)
.....(Aegean periods, Aegean, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Anchises (Greco-Roman character)
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) 95A(Anchises) (story of)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85004854
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Ἀγχίσης (Greco-Roman character)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchises
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) 95A(Anchises) (story of)
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Anchises," accessed 9 June 2017; http://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Anchises/7401
................ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85004854

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