Trojan Leaders
In Greek mythology, the Trojan Leaders were those who responded to the summon of King Priam of Troy as allies against the Achaean invaders during the Trojan War.[1][2][3][4]
| Ethnic Identity | Settlements | Leaders | Sources | Parentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homer | Apollodorus | Dictys | Dares | ||||
| Trojans | None stated (Troy) | Hector | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Priam and Hecuba | ||
| Deiphobus | ✓ | ||||||
| Paris | ✓ | ||||||
| Troilus | ✓ | son of Priam or Apollo[5] and Hecuba | |||||
| Dardanians | None stated (Dardania) | Aeneas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Anchises and Aphrodite | |
| Archelochus | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Antenor | ||||
| Acamas | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Trojans of Mt. Ida | • Zeleia | Pandarus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Lycaon |
| No name given | • Adresteia
• Apaesus • Pityeia • Mt. Tereia |
Adrestus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Merops |
| Amphius | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| No name given | • Percote
• Practius • Sestus • Abydus • Arisbe |
Asius | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Hyrtacus |
| Pelasgians | • Larissa | Hippothous | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Lethus or Pelasgus |
| Pylaeus | ✓ | ✓ | son of Lethus | ||||
| Cupesus | ✓ | ||||||
| Thracians | • lands bounded by Hellespont | Acamas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Eusorus |
| Peiroüs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Imbrasus | |||
| Ciconians | • Ciconia, Thrace | Euphemus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Troezenus |
| Paeonians | • Amydon
• River Axius |
Pyraechmes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Axius |
| Asteropaios | ✓ | son of Pelagon | |||||
| Paphlagonians | • Cytorus
• Sesamus • River Parthenius • Cromna • Aegialus • Erythini |
Pylaemenes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Bilsates or Melius |
| Halizones | • Alybe | Odius | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Mecisteus or Minuus |
| Epistrophus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Mysians | None stated | Chromis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Arsinous | |
| Ennomus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Phrygians "from afar" | • Ascania | Phorcys | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Aretaon |
| Ascanius | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Maeonians | • Mt. Tmolus | Mesthles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Talaemenes |
| Antiphus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Carians | • Miletus
• Mt. Phthires • Streams of the Maeander • crest of Mycale |
Nastes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | sons of Nomion |
| Amphimachus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Lycians | • River Xanthus
• Solymum |
Sarpedon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Zeus or Xanthus and Laodamia |
| Glaucus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | son of Hippolochus | ||
| No name given | • Colophon | Mopsus[citation needed] | ✓ | son of Manto | |||
| Ethiopians
Indians |
• Ethiopia | Memnon | (✓) | ✓ | son of Tithonus and Eos | ||
| Perses | ✓ | ||||||
| Thracians | None stated | Rhesus | (✓) | (✓) | ✓ | ||
| Archilochus | ✓ | ||||||
| Phrygians | None stated | Asius | ✓ | son of Dymas | |||
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.811 ff.
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 2.35
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34–35
- ^ Dares Phrygius, 18
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5
References
[edit]- Dares Phrygius, 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 theio.com
- 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.
- 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. ISBN 978-0198145318. 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.