Ilus (son of Dardanus)

In Greek mythology, Ilus (/ˈiːloʊs/; Ancient Greek: Ἶλος or Ἴλου Ilos) was a king of Dardania.

Family

Ilus was the eldest son of Dardanus either by Batia, daughter of Teucer, or probably Olizone, daughter of Phineus, and thus the brother of Erichthonius, his successor.[1][2][3] In some accounts, the names of the two sons of Dardanus and Batia were Erichthonius and Zacynthus.[4]

Mythology

After Dardanus died, his heir Ilus succeeded him to the throne. However, after his long reign, he died childless and heirless and thus his brother Erichthonius gained the kingship and became the ancestor of the later Trojans. Homer's Iliad mentions at several points the tomb of Ilus in the middle of the Trojan plain.[5]

Family tree

Trojan race

Oceanus Tethys Atlas Pleione Scamander Idaea Simoeis Zeus/Jupiter Electra Teucer Dardanus Batea Ilus Erichthonius Astyoche Callirrhoe Tros Ilus Ganymede Assaracus Hieromneme Laomedon Themiste Capys Priam Anchises Aphrodite/Venus Latinus Creusa of Troy Aeneas Lavinia Ascanius Silvius Silvius Aeneas Silvius Brutus of Britain Latinus Silvius Alba Atys Capys Capetus Tiberinus Silvius Agrippa Romulus Silvius Aventinus Procas Numitor Amulius Ares/Mars Rhea Silvia Hersilia Romulus Remus

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.2
2. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 3.5 & 4.22
3. Strabo, Geographica 13.1.25
4. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.50.3
5. Homer, Iliad 11.372 ff

References

• Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.