{{Short description|Mythological Greek king}} {{For|the taxonomic synonym of a genus of plants|Narcissus (plant)}} In Greek mythology, '''Assaracus''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|s|ær|ə|k|ə|s}}; Ancient Greek: Ἀσσάρακος ''Assarakos'') was a king of Dardania.<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D6%3Acard%3D637 6.637-678]</ref>

== Family == Assaracus was the second son of Tros, King of Dardania<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+20.235&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134 20.230-240]; Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#75.3 4.75.3-5]; Ovid, ''Fasti'' [https://topostext.org/work/143#4.19 4.34]; Suda, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/240#mu.1092 Minos]''</ref> by his wife Callirhoe, daughter of Scamander,<ref name=":0">Conon, ''Narrations'' 12; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 3.12.2]; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 29; Scholiast on Homer, ''Iliad'' 20.231 who refers to Hellanicus as his authority</ref> or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes.<ref name=":2">Dionysius of Halicarnassus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1C*.html#62.2 ''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.62.2]</ref> He was the brother of Ilus, Ganymede, Cleopatra and possibly of Cleomestra.<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D749 11.756]; ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri,'' 1359 fr. 2 as cited in Hesiod, ''Ehoiai'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html fr. 102]</ref> Assaracus married Hieromneme, daughter of Simoeis; others say his wife was Clytodora, daughter of Laomedon.<ref name=":2" /> By either of them, he became the father of his son and heir Capys.<ref>Ovid, ''Fasti'' [https://topostext.org/work/143#4.115 4.123]</ref>

According to a less common version, Aesyetes and Cleomestra were also mentioned as parents of Assaracus. In this account, his brothers were Alcathous and Antenor.<ref>Dictys Cretensis, [https://topostext.org/work/152#4.22 4.22]</ref> According to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Ganymedes was not a brother of Assaracus, but rather his son.<ref>Hyginus, [https://topostext.org/work/206#224 ''Fabulae'' 224].</ref>

== Mythology == Assaracus inherited the throne of Dardania when his elder brother Ilus preferred to reign instead over his newly founded city of Ilium (which also became known as Troy). When he died, the kingship passed to his son Capys. As a tribute to all his good work, Assaracus was buried in the midst of Troy, close to the temple of Athena and the later palace of Priam.<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus6.html#130 6.145 ff. p. 266]</ref>

== Family tree == {{Trojan race}}

==Notes== {{reflist}}

== References ==

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