Trojans Trojans Aeneas ( Greek: Αινείας, Aineías) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite ( Venus in Roman sources). He was also the cousin of King Priam of Troy. The journey of Aeneas from Troy, which led to the founding of the city that would one day become Rome, is recounted in Virgil's Aeneid. He is considered an important figure in Greek and Roman legend and history. Aeneas is a character in Homer's Iliad and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aeneas"
In Greek mythology, Anchises was a son of Capys and either Themiste (daughter of Ilus, son of Tros) or Hieromneme (a Naiad and daughter of Simois, the river god). He was the father of Aeneas by Aphrodite. He was either a poor shepherd, or a prince, depending on versions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anchises"
The Apollonian Guard was a unit of the Trojan Army, named after the largest and most important gate of Troy, the Apallonian Gate, and were noted as some of the greatest and most experienced soldiers of the Trojans. These soldiers were usually put into the front-line of battles, and were noted to be a unit of perfection in javelin-throwing and horse-riding. They were led solely by Poludamas, a important general and military advisor of King Priam, and a lueitenant and friend of Hector. Much of the unit was destroyed in the first battle of the Trojan War, when Hector and Poludamas led the Apallonian Guard against Achilles and his elite soldiers when they raided the Grand Temple of Apollo, the patron god of Troy. The rest were wiped out in a final stand at the Citadel of Troy, the area were the palace, temples and the Towers of Ilium laid. There Poludamas died, seven days after Hector's death at the hands of Achilles, and directly before Paris, also known as Alexandros, killed Achilles in the Gardens of Troy, and then was killed in combat, then afterwards Helen did a whorish act, and took of her top to seduce King Meneleus of Sparta, her ex-husband, to spare her. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apollonian Guard"
Asius (Asios) son of Hyrtacus was the leader of the Trojan allies that hailed from on or near the Hellespont ( Iliad, 2.835-840). This Asius is often confused with another Asius, a Phrygian warrior of the same name, brother to Queen Hecuba. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asios Hyrtakides"
Asius was a Phrygian leader and son of King Dymas, and brother of Queen Hecuba of Troy. This Asius is often confused with another warrior of this name, a son of Hyrtacus. Asius, son of Dymas, belonged to a tribe of Phrygians who resided by the River Sangarius. In the Iliad, Apollo is said to have taken Asius's shape to encourage Hector to fight Patroclus. This Asius survives the Iliad, but Dictys Cretensis says he was slain by Ajax. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asius (son of Dymas)"
In Greek mythology, Assaracus was the second son of King Tros of Dardania. He inherited the throne when his elder brother Ilus preferred to reign instead over his newly founded city of Ilium (which also became known as Troy). ...more on Wikipedia about "Assaracus"
In the Iliad Asteropaios (Latin: Asteropaeus) was the leader of the Paionians along with Pyraichmes. The Paionians were Trojan allies. Asteropaios was the son of Pelagon, who was the son of the river god Axios and the mortal woman Periboia. Asteropaios was a newcomer to the war at the start of the Iliad, he had only been in Troy for probably less than a week. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asteropaios"
In Greek mythology, Capys was ...more on Wikipedia about "Capys"
In Greek mythology, four people were known as Cycnus or Cygnus. Most of them ended up being transformed into swans. The most famous Cycnus however, was the son of Ares. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cycnus"
The terms Dardan and Dardanian in classical writings were synonymous with the term Trojan, the Dardans being Trojans, an ancient people of Troas in northwestern Anatolia. The Dardans derived their name from Dardanus, the mythical founder of Dardania (Asia minor), an ancient city in the Troad. Rule of the Troad was divided between Dardania and Troy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dardan"
The Dardanelles ( Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı, Greek: Δαρδανελλια), formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara. It is located at approximately . The strait is 61 km (38 miles) long but only 1.2 to 6 km (0.75 to 4 miles) wide, averaging 55 m (180 ft) deep with a maximum depth of 82 m (300 ft). Water flows in both directions along the strait, from the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean via a surface current and in the opposite direction via an undercurrent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dardanelles"
Dardania in Greek mythology is the name of a city founded on Mount Ida by Dardanus from which also the region and the people took their name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dardania (Asia minor)"
In Greek mythology, Dardanus ("burner up") was a son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dardanus"
The mythical King Erichthonius was the son of Dardanus or Darda, King of Dardania, and Batia, (although some legends say his mother was Olizone). Erichthonius became king of Dardania when his elder brother Ilus died childless. Homer called him "the richest man on earth", because he inherited kingdoms from both his father and his mother's father. ...more on Wikipedia about "Erichthonius of Dardania"
In Greek mythology, Ganymede (Greek: Γανυμήδης, Ganumêdês) was a divine hero whose homeland was the Troad. As a beautiful Trojan prince, son of eponymous Tros himself, Ganymede became Zeus's lover and cupbearer to the gods. For the etymology of his name Robert Graves (The Greek Myths) offers ganuesthai + medea, "rejoicing in virility." ...more on Wikipedia about "Ganymede"
In Greek mythology, Glaucus ("shiny" or "bright" or "bluish-green") referred to several different people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glaucus"
In Greek mythology, Hector ( Ἑκτωρ, "holding fast"), or Hektor, was a Trojan prince and one of the greatest fighters in the Trojan War, equal to Ajax and surpassed only by Achilles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hector"
Hellespont (i.e. "Sea of Helle", variously named in classical literature Hellesponium Pelagus, Rectum Hellesponticum, and Fretum Hellesponticum), was the ancient name of the Dardanelles. It was so-called from Helle, the daughter of Athamas, who was drowned here. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hellespont"
Ilus (Ilos in Greek) is in Greek mythology the founder of the city called Ilion (Latinized as Ilium) to which he gave his name. When the latter became the chief city of the Trojan people it was also often called Troy, the name by which it is best known today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ilus"
Laocoön ( Greek Λαοκοων, pronounced roughly La-oh-koh-on), son of Acoetes, was allegedly a priest of Poseidon (or of Apollo, by some accounts) at Troy; he is famous for warning the Trojans in vain against accepting the Trojan Horse from the Greeks, and for his subsequent divine execution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Laocoön"
Aeneas was the first king of Rome before the successors of Romulus. His descendants are listed here. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of the descendants of Aeneas"
Two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida in Greek mythology, equally named "Mount of the Goddess." Both sites associated with the Mother Goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, are the mountains associated with the Goddess, De (as in the "goddess-mother," De + meter), in an older form Da, "a female deity whose succor and assistance were evoked in archaic formulas by use of this syllable" ( Karl Kerenyi, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter p.28). ...more on Wikipedia about "Mount Ida"
Paris (Greek: Πάρις; also known as Alexander or Alexandros, c.f. Alaksandus of Wilusa), son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the most well known was his abduction of, or elopement with, Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan war. Later in the war, he fatally wounds Achilles in the heel with an arrow, as foretold by the dying Hector. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paris (mythology)"
(Poludamas) In Greek mythology, Polydamas was a lieutenant and friend of Hector during the Trojan War. They were born on the same night. Since Homer makes no reference to his ancestry (except to note that he is the son of Panthous), he is apparently a commoner, or in any event not a member of the royal house of Troy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Poludamas"
In Greek mythology, Priam ( Greek Πρίαμος) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, and youngest son of Laomedon. Priam had a number of wives; his first was Arisbe, daughter of Merops of Percote. Priam divorced Arisbe to marry Hecuba ( Hecabe), daughter of the Phrygian king Dymas, who became his principal wife. ...more on Wikipedia about "Priam" Please visit again http://www.shortopedia.com shortopedia
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