The Tales of Classical Mythology

by Yugioash

My name is Percy Jackson and this is my guide to Greek and Roman Mythology along with everything else connected to it. Written in the memory of the Son of Apollo Halcyon Green, who advised me to read up on the old stories as it would help me with my destiny, which was true. Please read 'The Tales of...' stories if you haven't yet.

97. Anchises

A/N: This is not The Tales of version of Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods or Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes, but rather The Tales of version of a book I got of Greek and Roman Mythology I got in Rome Italy. The settings will be after 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus' so please read that before getting in this story. Think of this story as something to pass by until The Trials of Apollo books.

---

Anchises

When a god/goddess tells you not to reveal their identity of the parent of your child, sometimes it's best to listen to them. As is the case of Anchises father of Aeneas.

Anchises was the son of Capys and Themiste or Aegesta. He was loved by Aphrodite who approached him claiming to be the daughter of Otreus, king of Phrygia. By this device she married him. Later, she told Anchises who she really was and predicted that she would bear him a son, but begged him not to tell anyone that his son was the child of a goddess.

But Anchises drank too much wine one feast day and boasted of his love affairs.

Zeus punished him by making him lame with a blast from a thunderbolt or, in other traditions, blind.

Anchisses is also said to have been the father of Lyrnus. The Illiad also gives Anchises a mortal wife name Eriopis, by whom he had several daughters, including one name Hippodamia.

When Troy had been captured when Anchises was eighty, Aeneas snatched his father from the carnage and made him his companion on his wanderings. The place of Anchises' death is sometimes said to be on Ida where he hadonce looked after the flocks; alternatively it is placed near the peninsula of Pallene in Macedonia, in Arcadia; in Epirus, in southern Italy, or on Cape Drepanum in Sicily.

According to Virgi, Aeneas established in his honour the funeral games that were the origin of the Trojan Gamesheld in Rome until the beginning of the Empire. Other writersmake Anchises live until Aeneas arrived in Latium.

And that's the story of Anchises.

Next up is the son of Midas who had to use his father's own greed to save the capital.