Ilos
Ilos ( Greek Ἶλος , Latin Ilus ) was, according to Greek mythology, the name of several people directly or indirectly associated with Troy .
Ilos (son of Tros)
Ilos, the founder and first king of Troy (Ilion), was a great-grandson of Dardanos and the son of Tros of Phrygia and the Kallirrhoë , after whom he named the city of Troy. He was brother of Assarakus and Ganymedes , married to Eurydice (and / or Acallaris , daughter of Eumedes ) and the father of Themiste (or Themis), Telecleia and Laomedon of Troy.
According to legend, he took part in the competitive games of the neighboring king in Phrygia , where he defeated all opponents and won the competition. The competition prize was fifty young men and fifty young girls. The king, who followed an instruction from an old oracle, also gave him a brightly colored cow, because it was prophesied that wherever the animal would lie down, he should found a castle.
Ilos obeyed the oracle and followed the cow, and because she lay down by the open patch that had been the capital of the country and his own apartment since his father Tros and was already called Troy, he built the strong castle here on the burial mound of the Phrygian Ate "Ilion" or "Ilios", also called "Pergamos", as the whole being from then on was called sometimes Troy, sometimes Ilion, sometimes Pergamos.
Before he built the castle, however, he asked his ancestor Zeus for a sign that he would be happy to found it. The next day he found the image of the goddess Athena, called Palladion , which had fallen from heaven, lying in front of his tent. It was three cubits high, had closed feet, and held a raised spear in one hand and a coat and spindle in the other .
When the sanctuary of Athena in Ilion was in flames, Ilos rushed to grab the palladion, but became blind - men may not be allowed to look at the palladion. But later, when he appeased the goddess after making offerings, he regained his sight.
After his father's death, he stayed in his favorite new city, Ilion. Instead, he gave rule over Dardania to his brother Assarakos and so the Trojans were split into two kingdoms.
Ilos (son of Dardanos)
Ilos, the son of Dardanos and Bateia , king of Dardania , who was followed in the rule by his brother Erichthonios .
Ilos (son of Mermeros)
Ilos, the son of Mermeros in Ephyra , from whom Odysseus wanted to get poison to smear his arrows with it, but Ilos refused to go to Odysseus out of pretense in front of the gods.
literature
- Karl Kerényi : The Mythology of the Greeks. Volume 1: The stories of gods and mankind (= dtv 30030). 16th edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-30030-2 .
- Michael Grant , John Hazel: Lexicon of ancient myths and figures (= dtv 32508). Unabridged, 18th edition in the text. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-32508-9 .
- Robert von Ranke-Graves : Greek Mythology. Sources and interpretation (= Rowohlt's encyclopedia. 404). New edition in one volume, 14th edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-499-55404-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hesiod , Catalog of Women, Fragment 102 (from Oxyrhynchos Papyri 1359 fr. 2)
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 20. 232 ff
- ↑ Apollodorus 3.141
- ↑ Homeric Hymns 5.203
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus 4.75.3, Suidas
- ^ Little Iliad , Ask 7
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 11.
- ↑ Homer, Odyssey 1. 258 ff