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== Anchises in ''Metamorphoses'' ==
[[Image:Eneasanquises.jpg|thumb|''Aeneas Bearing Anchises from Troy'', by [[Carle van Loo]], 1729 ([[Musée du Louvre|Louvre]])]]
Anchises makes a few brief appearances in [[Ovid]]'s ''[[Metamorphoses]].'' He is first mentioned in Book 9. After youth was restored to [[Iolaus]] by [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]], other gods and goddesses ask that it also be restored to their loved ones. (9.418-450)<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last1=Ovidius|first1=Publius|title=Metamorphoses|last2=Tarrant|first2=R.J.|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=2004|isbn=|location=Oxford|language=Latin}}</ref> Venus asks that youth be restored to Anchises. (9.424-425)<ref name=":4" />

Anchises is mentioned again in Book 13 in the story of the daughters of [[Anius]]. The story begins by briefly describing that Aeneas, Anchises, Ascanius, and other Trojan refugees fled Troy, traveled to [[Antandrus|Antandros]], then to Thrace, and finally arrived in Delos. (13.623–631)<ref name=":4" /> Once in Delos, Anchises asks Anius, the king and a priest of Apollo, about his children. (13.639–642)<ref name=":4" /> Anius describes that his daughters received the ability to transform that which they touched into grain, wine, and olive oil, but this gift only caused them misery as the Greeks kidnapped them so as to take advantage of their powers. (13.651–659)<ref name=":4" /> His daughters asked to be freed, and thus they were turned into white doves. (13.667–674)<ref name=":4" />

Anchises is briefly mentioned a couple of times in Book 14. First, in 14.82-84: "And fleeing that new city in the sands, Aeneas once again returned to [[Eryx (Sicily)|Eryx]], the royal residence of his true friend [[Acestes]]; here, at Anchises' tomb he honored his father with gift offerings."<ref name=":4" /> This makes reference to the funeral games Aeneas held for his deceased father Anchises in Book 5 of the ''Aeneid''. And in 14.116-118: "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, [his] father Anchises."<ref name=":4" /> This makes reference to the Aeneas' journey into the underworld, where he meets with the specter of his late father Anchises, in Book 6 of the ''Aeneid''.