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In Greek mythology, Ilus (/ ˈ iː l oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἶλος Ilos) was the founder of the city called Ilios or Ilion (Latinized as Ilium) to which he gave his name. [1] When the latter became the chief city of the Trojan people it was also often called Troy, the name by which it is best known today. In some accounts, Ilus was ...
In Greek mythology, Ilus (/ ˈ iː l oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἶλος, romanized: Îlos) is the name of several mythological characters associated directly or indirectly with Troy: Ilus, the son of Dardanus, and the legendary founder of Dardania. [1] Ilus, the son of Tros, and the legendary founder of Troy. [2]
Tros was the father of three sons: Ilus, Assaracus and Ganymede and two daughters, Cleopatra and Cleomestra. [2] He is the eponym of Troy, also named Ilion for his son Ilus. Tros's wife was said to be Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander, [3] or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes. [4] Another Tros was a Trojan warrior.
Ilus, founder-king of Troy; Ixion, a king of the Lapiths who attempted to rape Hera and was bound to a flaming wheel in Tartarus; Laërtes, father of Odysseus and king of the Cephallenians; he sailed with the Argonauts and participated in the Calydonian boar hunt; Laomedon, a king of Troy and father of Priam
Ilus was the eldest son of Dardanus either by Batea of Troad, daughter of Teucer, or probably Olizone, daughter of Phineus. Ilus was the brother of Erichthonius , his successor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In some accounts, the names of the two sons of Dardanus and Batea were Erichthonius and Zacynthus .
In Greek mythology, Ganymede is the son of Tros of Dardania, [6] [7] [8] from whose name "Troy" is supposedly derived, either by his wife Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander, [9] [10] or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes. [11] Depending on the author, he is the brother of either Ilus, Assaracus, Cleopatra, or Cleomestra. [12]
The original Palladion was part of the foundation myths of both Troy and Rome.It was a wooden image of Pallas (whom the Greeks identified with Athena and the Romans with Minerva) said to have fallen from heaven in answer to the prayer of Ilus, the founder of Troy.
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