Tros’s Family Tree

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Family

• Callirhoe(spouse),Assaracus(child),Ganymede(child),Ilus(child)— Marriage

  Tros, king of Troy, married the naiad Callirhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander. They had three sons: Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede, the most beautiful of mortals.

• Erichthonius of Troy(parent)

  Erichthonius of Troy fathered Tros, the eponymous king of Troy who gave the city and its people their name.

Associated with

• Zeus

  Zeus compensated Tros for the abduction of Ganymede by giving him a pair of divine horses, the swiftest among mortal steeds, as described in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.