Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Anius.
The gallery
Anius and Aeneas
Unknown, 17th–18th century
Print of Anius receiving Aeneas on Delos — Apollo's son and priest-king hosting the Trojan exile as Virgil tells in Aeneid 3.
Armorial Dish: The Story of King Anius
Unknown (Italian maiolica), c. 16th century
Metropolitan Museum istoriato dish titled for King Anius — the Delian host whose wine, wheat and oil daughters feed the Trojan fleet.
Armorial Dish: The Story of King Anius (alternate)
Unknown (Italian maiolica), c. 16th century
Second photograph of the Anius maiolica — Renaissance tableware that made the Delian king a dining-room myth.
Daughters of Anius Changed into Doves
Unknown, 16th–17th century
Rijksmuseum print: Anius' daughters transformed into doves — Ovid's sequel when Agamemnon's Greeks try to seize the girls who feed armies.
Aeneas on Delos
Unknown, 17th–18th century
Drawing of Aeneas' stop at Delos — Anius' island sanctuary where the Trojan remnant hears Apollo's oracle of Italy.
In play
Aeneid
Virgil
Virgil seats Anius as priest-king of Delos who hosts Aeneas and Anchises — the Delian friend whose hospitality opens Book 3.
Anius
Son of Apollo, king of Delos — father of the wine-, grain- and oil-giving daughters; not the metalmark butterfly of the same name.