Assaracus

Assaracus (Greek Ἀσσάρακος, latin Assaracus or Assaraco ) is a figure in Greek mythology, king of Dardanus in Phrygia.

Assaracus is the second son of Tros, king of Dardanus ( Dardania in the Troad ) and the Kallirrhoe. His brothers are called Ilus and Ganymede and his sister Cleopatra. He is the great-grandson of Dardanus. Husband of Hieromneme, daughter of Simoeis and father of Capys, and grandfather of Anchises. He succeeded his father, when he inherited the throne from his older brother Ilus, since this instead, the area of his newly founded city of Ilion (later known as Troy) preferred.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus makes him the son of Akali ( Akallaris ), a subsidiary of Eumedes, and the husband of Klytodora, daughter of Laomedon. According to others he is the brother or half-brother of Antenor because he was the son of Kleomestra ( a daughter of Tros ) and the Aisyetes ( Aesyetes ).

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• Homer, Iliad, 20, 230
• Pseudo- Apollodorus, Libraries, III, 12, 2