Ἴλιον
Ilion, Ilium, Troy
Translated by Robert Dyer8 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
The city of Phrygia.
"When the affair of the Argonauts was over, the Red (Erythraean) Sibyl1 gave an oracle to the Greeks: [...].2 In the territory of the Phrygians Tros, the father of Ilus and Ganymede, was king after founding Troy in his own name and Ilium in his son's name. After filling all the cities he won over the local rulers from Tantalus, the King of Thrace. And after some time he sent his son Ganymede, strongly loved by him, with 50 men, to take sacrifices and gifts to European Zeus for thanksgiving. So Tantalus, thinking that he was sent to spy on his kingdom, overpowered him before he reached the shrine. And after learning the real reason he nursed him. But he (Ganymede) after a short while was overcome by disease and died. Tantalus in grief placed him in a coffin, and sent men to tell his father of his death. The poets wrote that Ganymede was kidnapped by Zeus, turning the bitterness of his death into myth."
"When the affair of the Argonauts was over, the Red (Erythraean) Sibyl1 gave an oracle to the Greeks: [...].2 In the territory of the Phrygians Tros, the father of Ilus and Ganymede, was king after founding Troy in his own name and Ilium in his son's name. After filling all the cities he won over the local rulers from Tantalus, the King of Thrace. And after some time he sent his son Ganymede, strongly loved by him, with 50 men, to take sacrifices and gifts to European Zeus for thanksgiving. So Tantalus, thinking that he was sent to spy on his kingdom, overpowered him before he reached the shrine. And after learning the real reason he nursed him. But he (Ganymede) after a short while was overcome by disease and died. Tantalus in grief placed him in a coffin, and sent men to tell his father of his death. The poets wrote that Ganymede was kidnapped by Zeus, turning the bitterness of his death into myth."