Tros

In Greek mythological genealogies Tros appears as a mortal king of Dardania credited as the eponymous founder of the Trojans and the region called Troas (Troy). Sources present him in the genealogical line that links the Trojans to earlier figures of the heroic age; he is named as father (or ancestor in variant genealogies) of key Trojan figures and is remembered chiefly for giving his name to the people and territory of Troy. A recurrent narrative element ties Tros to the divine: his son Ganymede was carried off by Zeus, and Zeus recompensed Tros (in tradition summarized by the sources) by giving excellent horses to him as payment, thereby connecting Tros's house to the gods.

The supplied sources give no physical description of Tros. He is represented in the surviving summaries and encyclopedic accounts only as a king and patriarch within Trojan genealogies rather than as a vividly portrayed individual; no bodily attributes or iconographic details are recorded in the provided extracts.

Sources do not ascribe supernatural powers to Tros. His 'abilities' in the mythic record are etiological and genealogical: he names (and thus personifies) the origin of the Trojan people, fathers important descendants (notably Ganymede), and as a historical-mythic king receives recompense from a god in one well-attested episode. He is treated as mortal rather than divine in the materials supplied.