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Anchises in Metamorphoses

Anchises also makes a few brief appearances in Ovid's Metamorphoses. He is first mentioned in Book 9. After youth has been restored to Iolaus by Hebe, other gods and goddesses ask that youth be restored to their loved ones (9.577-621). Venus ask that youth be restored to Anchises (9.619-20).

Anchises is mentioned again in Book 13 during the story of the daughters of Anius. The story begins by briefly describing how Aeneas, Anchises, Ascanius, and other Trojan refugees flee Troy, go to Antandros, then to Thrace, and finally arrive in Delos (13.905-18). Once in Delos, Anchises asks Anius, who is the king and a priest of Apollo, about his children (13.931-4). Anius tells how his daughters received the ability to turn things they touched into grain, wine, and olive oil but how this gift caused them nothing but misery because the Greeks kidnapped them (13.944-67). So his daughters asked to be delivered and were turned into white doves (13.968-80).

Anchises is briefly mentioned a couple of times in Book 14. The first time reads "And fleeing that new city in the sands, Aeneas once again returned to Eryx, the royal residence of his true friend Acestes; here, at Anchises' tomb he honored his father with gift offerings" (14.106-10). This alludes to the funeral games Aeneas holds for Anchises in Book 5 of the Aeneid. The second time reads "Aeneas did as he was told and saw the underworld's formidable resources, and his ancestral spirits, and the shade of that great-spirited and venerable man, father Anchises" (14.171-5). This alludes to the journey Aeneas takes to the underworld in Book 6 of the Aeneid.