Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.618 Anchises

  Aeneas's father, a Dardan prince loved by Venus; carried from burning Troy by his son.

• The Aeneid §2.300 Anchises

  Aeneas's father, whom he carries from burning Troy; once beloved of Venus and blasted by Jupiter's bolt.

• The Aeneid §3.9 Anchises

  Aeneas's father; he reads the oracles, guides the voyage, and dies at Drepanum at the book's close.

• The Aeneid §4.353 Anchises

  Aeneas's dead father, whose troubled ghost warns Aeneas in dreams to press on to Italy.

• The Aeneid §6.126 Anchises

  Aeneas's father, whose shade he seeks; he reveals the parade of Roman souls to come.

• The Aeneid §8.156 Anchises

  Aeneas' father, whom Evander once met and admired in his youth; now dead, honoured throughout the poem.

• The Aeneid §9.647 Anchises

  Aeneas' father, whom Butes once served.

• The Aeneid §10.535 Anchises

  Aeneas' dead father; Aeneas invokes his shade in refusing Magus mercy.

• The Aeneid §12.935 Anchises

  Aeneas' father; the dying Turnus invokes Aeneas' love for him in begging mercy.