Tro
Tros ( ancient Greek Τρώς ) is in Greek mythology the king of Troy in Phrygia , son of Erichthonios and Astyoche . His wife is Kallirrhoe , daughter of Scamander (or Akallaris , daughter of Eumedes ). She bore him the three sons Assarakos , Ganymede and Ilos and the daughter Cleopatra .
Tros was the grandson of Dardanos , he is the ancestor of the Trojans (Trojans), from whom the people got their name and the region was called Troas .
Ganymede was kidnapped to Olympus by Zeus , as he was the most beautiful of mortals. As a replacement from Hermes, Tros was given divine horses that were so fast that they could run across water - an original legend about the sea power of the Trojans, who ruled the Dardanelles for a long time , the passage from the Aegean to the Black Sea.
literature
- Magdalena Stoevesandt : Tros 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 876.
- Gustav Türk : Tros 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 1279 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ernst Wüst : Tros 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII A, 1, Stuttgart 1939, Col. 697.