Pausanias' Description of Greece

Tros

Role: father · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 24

Life events

  • Ganymede was carried off by the gods to serve as Zeus’s cupbearer, while Tros received horses.(Book 5 · Chapter 24)
    • With: Ganymede Zeus
    • “Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son.”

Book 5 · Chapter 24

  • child: Ganymede (Tros is identified as Ganymede's father.) “The account of Homer is that Ganymede was carried off by the gods to be cupbearer to Zeus, and that Tros his father had some horses given him for his son.”

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