Assarakos
Assarakos ( Greek Ἀσσάρακος , Latin Assaracus or Assaraco ) is a figure in Greek mythology , king of Dardanos in Phrygia .
Assarakos is the second-born son of Tros , king of Dardanos ( Dardania in Troas ) and the Kallirrhoë . His brothers are called Ilos and Ganymede and his sister Cleopatra . He is the great-grandson of Dardanos . Consort of Hieromneme , daughter of Simoeis and father of Kapys , and grandfather of Anchises . He succeeded his father when he inherited the throne from his older brother Ilos, who instead preferred the area of his newly founded city of Ilion (later known as Troy).
Dionysius of Halicarnassus makes him the son of Akalis ( Akallaris ), a daughter of Eumedes , and the husband of Klytodora , the daughter of Laomedon . According to others, he is the brother or half-brother of Antenor , since he was the son of Cleomestra , a daughter of Tros, and Aisyetes ( Aesyetes ).
swell
- Homer , Iliad , 20, 230
- Pseudo-Apollodor , Library , III, 12, 2
literature
- Ulrich Hoefer : Assarakos 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 1741 f.
- Schirmer: Assarakus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 644 f. ( Digitized version ).
credentials
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1, 62
- ^ Dictys Cretensis , Ephemeris belli Troiani , Book IV, 22