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Mythological Greek king
In
Greek mythology , Assaracus (;
Ancient Greek : Ἀσσάρακος Assarakos ) was a king of
Dardania .
[1]
Family
Assaracus was the second son of
Tros , King of Dardania
[2] by his wife
Callirhoe , daughter of
Scamander ,
[3] or
Acallaris , daughter of
Eumedes .
[4] He was the brother of
Ilus ,
Ganymede ,
Cleopatra and possibly of
Cleomestra .
[5] Assaracus married
Hieromneme , daughter of
Simoeis ; others say his wife was
Clytodora , daughter of
Laomedon .
[4] By either of them, he became the father of his son and heir
Capys .
[6]
According to a less common version,
Aesyetes and Cleomestra were also mentioned as parents of Assaracus. In this account, his brothers were
Alcathous and
Antenor .
[7] In some versions of the myth, Ganymedes was not a brother of Assaracus but also a son of Assaracus.
[8]
Mythology
Assaracus inherited the throne of Dardania when his elder brother Ilus preferred to reign instead over his newly founded city of
Ilium (which also became known as
Troy ). When he died, the kingship passed to his son Capys. As a tribute to all his good work, Assaracus was buried in the midst of Troy, close to the temple of
Athena and the later palace of Priam.
[9]
Family tree
Notes
^
Virgil ,
Aeneid
6.637-678
^
Homer ,
Iliad
20.230-240 ;
Diodorus Siculus ,
4.75.3-5 ;
Ovid ,
Fasti
4.34 ; Suda, s.v.
Minos
^
Conon , Narrations 12;
Apollodorus ,
3.12.2 ;
Tzetzes on
Lycophron , 29;
Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 20.231 who refers to
Hellanicus as his authority
^
a
b
Dionysius of Halicarnassus ,
Antiquitates Romanae 1.62.2
^ Ovid,
Metamorphoses
11.756 ; Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 1359 fr. 2 as cited in
Hesiod ,
Ehoiai
fr. 102
^ Ovid, Fasti
4.123
^
Dictys Cretensis ,
4.22
^
Hyginus ,
Fabulae 224
^
Quintus Smyrnaeus ,
6.145 ff. p. 266
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