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in our Database | |  | De Troie - 1 Individuals Found | | Photo | Name / Spouse | Father / Mother | Notes |  | ILUS De Troie
b.-1290 | Father: KING Tros Of Troy
Mother: | Ilus of Troy Born around 1360 B.C., Died around 1280 B.C., Founder and First King of Troy Ilus of Troy stands at the dawn of legend. His was the hand that first raised the city that would outlast his bones and become immortal in story. He was the son of Tros, from whom the Trojans took their name, and the brother of Ganymede, whose beauty captured the eye of Zeus himself. From this divine entanglement came both blessing and burden, for the gods never love a mortal line without price. When Ilus set out from Dardania to find a city of his own, he prayed for a sign. At the river Scamander, an omen appeared: a cow, sent by Athena, marked the place where his city should rise. There he built the first walls, calling the place Ilium after his own name. To mark her favor, Athena gave him the Palladium, a small wooden statue said to protect the city from conquest as long as it remained within the walls. Ilus ruled with the quiet strength of a founder. His reign was not one of conquest but of creation. He organized his people, laid out markets, built temples, and opened Troy’s harbors to the merchants of the Aegean and beyond. Under his care, the city became a center of trade and faith, shining with the confidence of a people touched by divine promise. He was remembered as a just man, neither tyrant nor fool, who balanced mortal ambition with reverence for the gods. Yet the gift of Athena would one day draw envy and ruin. In time, Ilus’s descendants would forget the humility that had guided their forefather. The Palladium, once a token of favor, would become a curse when men sought to claim it through deceit and war. Ilus died before the storms that would one day fall upon his city. He left behind the beginnings of an empire, a people proud of their name, and a son, Laomedon, who would inherit both his vision and his peril. | |
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