Krëusa (Troy)

Krëusa (Greek Κρέουσα; Latin Creusa ; spoken: Kre-u-sa) was a daughter of the Trojan king Priam and his wife Hecabe in Greek mythology . She became the first wife of Aeneas and mother of their son Ascanius . During the Trojan War , she was captured by the Greeks, but then saved by Aphrodite . A picture in the Lesche der Knidier in Delphi showed them among the captured Trojans.

With Apollo she is said to have begat Anios .

literature

• Hans von Geisau: Kreusa 4. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 342.
• Otto Höfer : Kreusa 4) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1428 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pausanias 10:26 , 1.