Ilus

Ilos (Greek Ἶλος, Latin Ilus ) was, according to Greek mythology, the name of several directly or indirectly connected with Troy people.

Ilus (son of Tros )

Ilus, the founder and first king of Troy ( Ilion ), was a great-grandson of Dardanus Samothrakers and the son of Tros of Phrygia and Callirhoe, after which he named the city of Troy. He was brother of the Assaracus and Ganymede, married to Eurydice (and / or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes ) and the father of Themiste (or Themis ), and the Telecleia of Laomedon of Troy.

According to legend, he took part in competitive games of the neighboring king of Phrygia, where he defeated all opponents and won the contest. He received for predatory fifty young men and fifty young girls. The king, who was followed by a transfer of an ancient oracle, he also issued a cow speckled skin, because it was prophesied, would there wherever the animal to lie down because he should set up a castle.

Ilos obeyed the oracle and followed the cow, and because they are put down at the open spots, which was the capital of the country and his own apartment since his father Tros and even Troy was said that he built here at the grave hill of the Phrygian Ate the stronghold " Ilion " or " Ilios ," also have been called " Pergamos " how, then, was soon called Pergamos the whole essence of now soon Troy, Ilion soon.

But before he put the castle, he asked his ancestor Zeus for a sign that it was agreeable to the establishment of the same. The next day he found the fallen from the sky image of the goddess Athena, called Palladium, are his tent. It was three cubits high, had closed feet, holding in his right hand a raised spear in the other distaff and spindle.

As the sanctuary of Athena stood in Ilion in flames, Ilus rushed and seized the Palladium, but he went blind while - maybe it was men not allowed to view the Palladium. But later, when he appeased the goddess after offerings, he regained his sight.

After his father's death he remained in his favorite new city Ilion. He gave instead the rule of Dardania on his brother Assaracus and so the Trojans were split into two kingdoms.

Ilus (son of Dardanus )

Ilus, son of Dardanus and the Bateia, King of Dardania, which in the reign of his brother Erichthonios followed.

Ilus (son of Mermeros )

Ilos, son of Mermeros in Ephyra in which Odysseus wanted to get poison to spread his arrows with it, but refused to Ilos from bill before the gods to Odysseus wants to go.