Scamandros

This article covers the river Skamandros (also Xanthos). For the river god, see Skamandros (river god) ; for the river in the province of Antalya see Xanthos (river) .

Küçükmenderes is a redirect to this article. For the Küçük Menderes river, see Little Meander .

Map of the Troas

The Scamander , also known as the Scamander , is an ancient river in the Troas region in Asia Minor . Today the river Karamenderes is called Çayı .

It rises in the Ida Mountains and flows north of Kumkale into the Dardanelles . On its bank lies the archaeological site of Troy and a little closer to the mouth of the prehistoric settlement hill Kumtepe .

In the Iliad of Homer , Skamandros is the river name among the people; the gods call it Xanthos. In Greek mythology he is personified by the river god of the same name . This is a son of Oceanus and Tethys . As the father of the Teukros and the Strymo , he became the progenitor of the Trojans.

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  The scamander near its source (1835)

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  The Scamandros northwest of Troy

literature

• Rudolf Fellmann : Scamandros . In: Lexicon of the Old World . P. 2810.
• Hans von Geisau : Scamandros. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 220f.

See also

• Karamenderes Çayı , today's name of the river

Web links

Commons : Skamandros  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Iliad, German translation, by Johann Heinrich Voss

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chant 20, verse 74