Teukros (King of Troas)

Teukros ( Greek Τεῦκρος , Latin Teucer), son of the river god Skamandros and the nymph Idaia , is a figure in Greek mythology .

Depending on the reading, it came from Attica or Crete . In the latter version, he left the home island with his father Skamandros and emigrated to Asia Minor . An oracle had prophesied that they would settle where "earth-born" would attack them. When mice ate the bowstrings and the leather of the weapons in Phrygia at night, they saw the oracle fulfilled. They settled in the area and donated a shrine to Apollon Smintheus.

Teukros became the first king of Troy . The Trojan people originally received the name Teukrer after him. Bateia and Neso are named as his daughters ; one of the two (also here the legends differ) became the wife of Dardanus , who succeeded him to the throne.

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Libraries of Apollodorus 3,139f.
Diodorus 4.75

literature

Johannes Schmidt : Teukros 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 403-407 ( digitized version ).
Julius Johannes Gerardus Vürtheim: Teukros and Teukrer . Investigation of the Homeric and the Post-Homeric tradition. WL & J. Brusse, Rotterdam 1913 ( online [accessed December 6, 2014]).

Individual evidence

↑ In the Metamorphoses , too , Crete is the home of Teukros and thus the reason why Aeneas and his companions visit the island as their promised land; s. Ovid Metamorphoses 13, 705f.

[1] In the Metamorphoses , too , Crete is the home of Teukros and thus the reason why Aeneas and his companions visit the island as their promised land; s. Ovid Metamorphoses 13, 705f.