The Aeneid: Character Study: Anchises in The Aeneid
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- Anchises in The Aeneid
- Plot
- Book 2
- Aeneas thinks about Anchises before he thinks about Creusa
- Lives with him as part of the Oikos structure
- Refuses to leave because of his piety to Troy
- Leads Aeneas to try and stay and fight
- Carried on the back of Aeneas
- One of the few people to escape the fall of Troy
- Book 5
- Games are held a year after his death in his honour
- Appears to Aeneas in a dream telling him to follow the advice of Nautes and to visit him in the Underworld to achieve his fatium
- Book 6
- In the Elysium fields: highlights him to have been a good man in his life time
- Aeneas' purpose for the whole book is to visit his Dad
- Watches the regeneration of heroes; symbolic? Looking over the regeneration from Troy to Rome?
- Lists the fate of his descendants including Augustus Caesar
- Book 8
- Allows for the Homeric Xenia from Evander for Aeneas due to Evander and Anchises' previous relationship
- Book 2
- Themes
- Pietas
- Aversion to leave Troy
- Crying over Misenus
- Relgio and Virtus
- Watching the reincarnation of heroes
- In the Elysium Fields: good man
- Has a funeral games and a proper burial a whole year after his death
- Homeric Xenia with Evander allows for Aeneas to gain allies quickers
- Interpreting the flames as an Omen from Jupiter
- Paterfamilia and Fathers/Sons
- Carried on the back of Aeneas: importance as Paterfamilia
- Aeneas is willing to stay with him
- Aeneas goes to the Underworld for him
- Prophecy in Book 6: Augustus and Descendants
- Appears to Aeneas in a dream to mentor him
- Start of the Augustan line
- Pietas
- Significant Language
- "My first wish was to find my father" - Aeneas (2.635)
- "If the gods in heaven had wished for me to go on living, they would have preserved this place for me" (2.461)
- "Did you think I could run away and leave my father here?" "sacrilege" - Aeneas (2.658)
- "Preserve my grandson." - (2.703)
- "Anchises yields" - (2.704)
- "O my son, dearer to me than life itself" - (5.725)
- "tears streaming down his cheeks" - Seeing Aeneas (6.685)
- "Three times the phantom melted in his hands, as weightless as the wind, as light as the flight of sleep." - (5.702)
- "Began to speak through his tears" - Anchises about Misenus (6.867)
- Plot
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