The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Ilus

Family: Troy · Role: ancestor of Æsacus · First appears: Fable 98

Fable 98

  • with Æsacus (Ilus is identified as an ancestor of Æsacus.) “his ancestors are Ilus, and Assaracus, and Ganymede,[59] snatched away by Jupiter, and the aged Laomedon, and Priam, to whom were allotted the last days of Troy.”
  • child: Laomedon (Ilus is Laomedon's father.) “Ilus was the father of Laomedon, whose son was Priam, the father of Æsacus.”
  • siblings with Assaracus (Assaracus is Ilus's brother.) “Assaracus and Ganymede, as they were only the brothers of Ilus”
  • siblings with Ganymede (Ganymede is Ilus's brother.) “Assaracus and Ganymede, as they were only the brothers of Ilus”
  • younger kin: Æsacus “And, if you want to come down to him in one lengthened series, his ancestors are Ilus, and Assaracus, and Ganymede,[59] snatched away by Jupiter, and the aged Laomedon, and Priam, to whom were allotted the last days of Troy.”
  • parent: Tros “Ovid need not have inserted Assaracus and Ganymede, as they were only the brothers of Ilus, and the three were the sons of Tros.”

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