ANCHISES, in Greek legend, son of Capys and Themis, grandson (according to Hyginus, son) of Assaracus, of the junior branch of the royal family of Troy, king of Dardanus on Mt. Ida. Here Aphrodite met him and, enamoured of his beauty, bore him Aeneas. For revealing the name of the child's mother, he was killed or struck blind by lightning (Hyginus, Fab., 94). In more recent legend, adopted by Virgil in the Aeneid, he was con veyed out of Troy on the shoulders of his son Aeneas (q.v.) and died in Sicily.