Editing Tros (mythology) (section)

== Genealogy ==

=== Homer's account ===
The following excerpts from [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'' recounts Tros' ancestors and descendants:

: Howbeit, if thou wilt, hear this also, that thou mayest know well my lineage, and many there be that know it: at the first [[Zeus]], the cloud-gatherer, begat [[Dardanus (son of Zeus)|Dardanus]], and he founded [[Dardanians (Trojan)|Dardania]], for not yet was sacred Ilios builded in the plain to be a city of mortal men, but they still dwelt upon the slopes of many-fountained Ida. And Dardanus in turn begat a son, king Erichthonius, who became richest of mortal men. Three thousand steeds had he that pastured in the marsh-land; mares were they. rejoicing in their tender foals. Of these as they grazed the North Wind became enamoured, and he likened himself to a dark-maned stallion and covered them; and they conceived, and bare twelve fillies These, when they bounded over the earth, the giver of grain, would course over the topmost ears of ripened corn and break them not, and whenso they bounded over the broad back of the sea, would course over the topmost breakers of the hoary brine. And Erichthonius begat '''Tros''' to be king among the Trojans, and from Tros again three peerless sons were born, Ilus, and Assaracus, and godlike Ganymedes that was born the fairest of mortal men; wherefore the gods caught him up on high to be cupbearer to Zeus by reason of his beauty, that he might dwell with the immortals. And Ilus again begat a son, peerless [[Laomedon]], and Laomedon begat [[Tithonus]] and [[Priam]] and [[Clytius]], and [[Hicetaon]], scion of [[Ares]]. And Assaracus begat [[Capys]], and he [[Anchises]]; but Anchises begat me and Priam goodly [[Hector]]. This then is the lineage amid the blood wherefrom I avow me sprung.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:20.199-20.241 20.213–241]</ref>

=== Apollodorus' account ===
The ancient author Apollodorus in his book, ''Bibliotheca'', also gives Tros' lineage:

: And he (i.e. Dardanus) had sons born to him, Ilus and Erichthonius, of whom Ilus died childless, and Erichthonius succeeded to the kingdom and marrying Astyoche, daughter of Simoeis, begat '''Tros'''. On succeeding to the kingdom, Tros called the country Troy after himself, and marrying Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander, he begat a daughter Cleopatra, and sons, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede. This Ganymede, for the sake of his beauty, Zeus caught up on an eagle and appointed him cupbearer of the gods in heaven; and Assaracus had by his wife Hieromneme, daughter of Simoeis, a son Capys; and Capys had by his wife [[Themiste]], daughter of Ilus, a son Anchises, whom [[Aphrodite]] met in love's dalliance, and to whom she bore Aeneas and Lyrus, who died childless.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.12.2 3.12.2]</ref>

=== Dionysius of Halicarnassus  ===
Another writer, named [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], wrote a passage about Tros' ancestry that gives us back to Dardanus proving that the Trojan race was indeed of Greek origin.

: But the subject requires that I relate also how Aeneas was descended: this, too, I shall do briefly. Dardanus, after the death of [[Chryse (mythology)|Chrysê]], the daughter of [[Pallas (son of Lycaon)|Pallas]], by whom he had his first sons, married [[Batea (mythology)|Bateia]], the daughter of [[Teucer]], and by her had Erichthonius, who is said to have been the most fortunate of all men, since he inherited both the kingdom of his father and that of his maternal grandfather. Of Erichthonius and Callirrhoê, the daughter of Scamander, was born Tros, from whom the nation has received its name; of '''Tros''' and Acallaris, the daughter of Eumedes, Assaracus; of Assaracus and [[Clytodora]], the daughter of Laomedon, Capys; of Capys and a Naiad nymph, Hieromnemê, Anchises; of Anchises and Aphroditê, Aeneas.<ref name=":1">Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.62</ref>