Ilos
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Ilos, son of Mermerus · old Ilos
in the texts
Iliad
A ruler of days of old, son of Dardanos, whose tomb and monument on the plain of Troy serve as landmarks in the battle.
They flew on by the tomb [ sêma] of old Ilos, son of Dardanos, in the middle of the plain, and past the place of the wild fig-tree making always for the city - the son of Atreus still shouting, and with hands all bedrabbled in gore;
As he spoke he began stripping the spoils from the son of Paeon, but Alexander husband of lovely Helen aimed an arrow at him, leaning against a pillar of the monument which men had raised to Ilos son of Dardanos, a ruler in days of old.
Erichthonios begat Tros, king of the Trojans, and Tros had three noble sons, Ilos, Assarakos, and Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men;
Odyssey
Son of Mermerus who, fearing the gods, refused to give Odysseus poison for his arrows at Ephyra.
He was then coming from Ephyra, where he had been to beg poison for his arrows from Ilos, son of Mermerus.