Editing Assaracus (section)

== Family ==
Assaracus was the second son of [[Tros (mythology)|Tros]], King of Dardania<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+20.235&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134 20.230-240]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#75.3 4.75.3-5]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/143#4.19 4.34]; Suda, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/240#mu.1092 Minos]''</ref> by his wife [[Callirhoe (mythology)|Callirhoe]], daughter of [[Scamander]],<ref name=":0">[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' 12; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 3.12.2]; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 29; [[Scholia]]st on Homer, ''Iliad'' 20.231 who refers to [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]] as his authority</ref> or [[Acallaris]], daughter of [[Eumedes]].<ref name=":2">[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1C*.html#62.2 ''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.62.2]</ref> He was the brother of [[Ilus (son of Tros)|Ilus]], [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]], [[Cleopatra (Greek myth)|Cleopatra]] and possibly of [[Cleomestra]].<ref>Ovid, ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D749 11.756]; ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri,'' 1359 fr. 2 as cited in [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women|Ehoiai]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html fr. 102]</ref> Assaracus married [[Hieromneme]], daughter of [[Simoeis]]; others say his wife was [[Clytodora]], daughter of [[Laomedon]].<ref name=":2" /> By either of them, he became the father of his son and heir [[Capys of Dardania|Capys]].<ref>Ovid, ''Fasti'' [https://topostext.org/work/143#4.115 4.123]</ref>

According to a less common version, [[Aesyetes]] and Cleomestra were also mentioned as parents of Assaracus. In this account, his brothers were [[Alcathous]] and [[Antenor (mythology)|Antenor]].<ref>[[Dictys Cretensis]], [https://topostext.org/work/152#4.22 4.22]</ref> According to the Roman mythographer [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], Ganymedes was not a brother of Assaracus, but rather his son.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], [https://topostext.org/work/206#224 ''Fabulae'' 224].</ref>