Anchises
3 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Anchises. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
A son of Capys and Themis . He was so beautiful that Venus came down from Heaven on Mount Ida to enjoy his company. Aeneas was the son of Anchises and Venus, and was entrusted to the care of Chiron the Centaur. When Troy was taken, Anchises had become so infirm that Aeneas had to carry him through the flames upon his shoulders, and thus saved his life. 2026 Editor's Note: In Greco-Roman mythology, Anchises was a Trojan prince who fathered the hero Aeneas with the goddess Aphrodite. The iconic image of Aeneas carrying his elderly father from the flames of Troy is immortalized in a life-sized marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, completed around 1619 and housed in the Galleria Borghese. While the Aeneid focuses on his escape, other traditions claim Anchises was blinded or killed by Zeus's thunderbolt for revealing his divine affair. (Ed: BR 2026-07-01)
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
an-ki'sez, in Greek legend, a prince of the royal house of Troy, and father, by Aphrodite, of Aeneas. He boasted of the favoritism of Aphrodite for himself, and, as a punishment, was struck blind. Aeneas carried Anchises on his shoulders from Troy while the city was burning. 2026 Editor's Note: The image of Aeneas carrying his aged father from burning Troy became one of Western art's great emblems of filial duty — most famously in Bernini's marble group in Rome's Borghese Gallery, carved when the sculptor was barely twenty. (Ed: BR 2026-06-12)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the father of the Trojan hero Æneas, who carried him off on his shoulders at the burning of Troy and made him the companion of his voyage to Italy. He died at Drepanum, in Sicily.