Asius (Asios) son of Hyrtacus was the leader of the Trojan allies that hailed from on or near the Hellespont (Iliad, 2.835-840). This Asius is often confused with a Phrygian warrior of the same name, brother to Queen Hecabe. In Greek mythology, Hyrtacus was the father of Nisus. ... A citizen of the city of Troy (Ilium) as described by Homer. ... Hellespont (i. ... The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ... Asius may refer to: Asios Hyrtakides. ... Phrygian can refer to: A person from Phrygia The Phrygian language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 108 Hecuba is an asteroid. ...

Both these characters named 'Asius' are associated with the Trojan War, and both are minor characters in Homer's Iliad. The first was a son of Hyrtacus and Arisbe, the first wife of King Priam and daughter of Merops, the seer of Percote. This Asius led the contingent from a cluster of towns on both sides of the Hellespont, including Arisbe, Percote, Abydus and Sestus. This last town was the only one to lie on the European (northern) side of the Hellespont; the rest were situated on the Asian (southern) side. Asius himself resided in the town of Arisbe, by the river Selleis, and this may have been the capital of this little Hellespontine domain. Asius had a brother named Nisus, and two sons named Adamas and Phaenops. All four men (Asius, Nisus, Adamas, Phaenops) fought at Troy, as allies of King Priam. Adamas was killed by Meriones before Troy, and Phaenops (who came from Abydus), was a close friend to Hector - Apollo once adopted the form of Phaenops to address Hector. Asius, son of Hyrtacus, was killed by the Cretan king Idomeneus. The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ... In Greek mythology, Hyrtacus was the father of Nisus. ... Arisbe can be: Another name for Batea, a person in Greek Mythology An early (pre-Hecuba) wife of King Priam of Troy, also from Greek Mythology A place name in Homers Iliad. ... In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Πρίαμος) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, and son of Laomedon. ... In Greek mythology, several distinct people shared the name Merops King of Ethiopia, husband of Clymene, father of Pandareus and stepfather of Phaethon son of Helios. ... Hellespont (i. ... Arisbe can be: Another name for Batea, a person in Greek Mythology An early (pre-Hecuba) wife of King Priam of Troy, also from Greek Mythology A place name in Homers Iliad. ... Percote was a town or city on the southern (Asian) side of the Hellespont, to the northeast of Troy. ... Abydos may mean: Abydos, Egypt, one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt Abydos, Hellespont (also Ábydos), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor Abydos (music), a 2004 solo musical project of Andy Kuntz, member of Vanden Plas Abydos (Stargate), name of a fictional planet in the Stargate... Sestos was an ancient town of the Thracian Chersonese, the modern Gallipoli peninsula. ... In mythology, Nisus refers to two differerent people: In Greek mythology, Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of red hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy (Turkey) Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homers Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 8th or 7th century BC, but containing older... In Greek mythology, Meriones was the charioteer, the half-nephew, Molus (was his father) and brother-in-arms of Idomeneus during the Trojan War. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy (Turkey) Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is described in Homers Iliad, an epic poem in Ancient Greek, composed in the 8th or 7th century BC, but containing older... Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. ... Hector brought back to Troy. ... In Greek mythology, Idomeneus was a Cretan warrior, grandson of Minos. ...

The other Asius was a Phrygian and son of King Dymas, and brother of Queen Hecabe of Troy. He belonged to a tribe of Phrygians who resided by the River Sangarius. In the Iliad, Apollo is said to have taken Asius's shape to encourage Hector to fight Patroclus. This Asius survives the Iliad, but Dictys Cretensis says he was slain by Ajax. Asius, son of Dymas, is not listed near the beginning of the Iliad as a leader of the Phrygians; that honor goes to Ascanius and Phorcys, both from Phrygian Ascania. The connection between the Phrygians of Ascania and Asius's Phrygians from by the River Sangarius is unclear in the Iliad, as elsewhere. There may have been two Phrygian tribes in northwest Asia Minor, each with a separate king. Phrygian can refer to: A person from Phrygia The Phrygian language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In Greek mythology, Dymas is the name of at least four characters. ... 108 Hecuba is an asteroid. ... The Sakarya (Greek Σαγγάριος, Latinized as Sangarius) is a river in Asia Minor. ... A cup depicting Achilles bandaging Patroklos arm, by Sosias. ... Dictys Cretensis, of Cnossus in Crete, was the supposed companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and author of a diary of its events. ... The name Ajax, or Aîas can refer to: Ajax Amsterdam, the major football (soccer) team of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Two figures in Homers Iliad: Telamonian Aias, or Ajax the Great, King of Salamis Ajax the Lesser, King of Locris Ajax (Sophocles), a tragedy whose protagonist is Ajax the... In Greek and Roman mythology, Ascanius was a son of Aeneas and Creusa. ... In Greek mythology, Phorcys, or Phorkys was a primeval sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia. ...

The name Asius might be associated with 'Asia', given that both the above mythological personages hail from Asia Minor (which the ancient Greeks knew as 'Asia'). However, there was an ancient town in Crete named Asos (or Oasos). Although neither Asius appears to be Cretan (one is from Arisbe by the Hellespont, the other from Phrygia), Greek mythological sources describe ties between Asia Minor and Crete in the generations before the Trojan War. King Teucer, a mythical ancestor of the Trojans, is said to have been Cretan (although other sources claim he was indigenous to the Troas, and a son of the River God Scamander). Teucer's daughter Arisbe is said to have married King Dardanus, the great-great-great-grandfather of King Priam. (This Arisbe shares the name with the wife of Hyrtacus, who lived five generations later, and may be the eponym for the town of Arisbe). The names 'Hyrtacus' and 'Arisbe' may also be Cretan; and there was a Mount Ida in both Crete and the Troas. Abydus, which formed part of Asius's realm, appears to have been founded (or at least settled) by Milesians; the city of Miletus in Caria, south of Troy, began as a Cretan settlement. Greece and Crete Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Two figures in Greek mythology had the name Teucer: The son of Hesione and Telamon, Teucer fought with his half-brother, Ajax the Great, in the Trojan War and is the legendary founder of the city Salamis on Cyprus. ... Map of the Troas The Troas (Troad; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an ancient region in the northwestern part of Anatolia, bounded by the Hellespont to the northwest, the Aegean Sea to the west, and separated from the rest of Anatolia by the massif that forms... In Greek mythology, Scamander (Skamandros) was an Oceanid, son of Oceanus and Tethys. ... Arisbe can be: Another name for Batea, a person in Greek Mythology An early (pre-Hecuba) wife of King Priam of Troy, also from Greek Mythology A place name in Homers Iliad. ... In Greek mythology, Dardanus (burner up) was a son of Zeus by Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad. ... Ida of Bernicia, King of a British state. ... Miletus was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia (in what is now the Aydin Province of Turkey), near the mouth of the Maeander River. ... Location of Caria Caria (Greek Καρία; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a region of Asia Minor, situated south of Ionia, and west of Phrygia and Lycia. ...