Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Anchises.
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Aeneid
Virgil
Virgil makes Anchises the father Aeneas carries from burning Troy — and later the shade who shows Rome's future in the underworld.
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Anchises
Anchises remains Aphrodite's mortal lover and the root of Rome's Trojan claim — the herdsman struck by lightning for boasting of the goddess.