ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE TROJANS.

We have the testimony of Herodotus that the Trojans were Teucrians. This is confirmed by the tradition preserved by Apollodorus, that from Electra, the daughter of Atlas, were born by Zeus Iasion and Dardanus. Now Iasion, having fallen in love with Demeter and intending to violate the goddess, was killed by a thunderbolt. Dardanus, grieving for his brother's death, left the island of Samothrace, and crossed to the opposite continent. Here reigned Teucer (Τεῦκρος), son of the river Scamander and a Nymph of Ida, from whom the inhabitants of the country were called Teucrians. Having been adopted by the king, he married his daughter Bateia, received part of the land, built the city of Dardanus, and, after Teucer's death, named the whole country Dardania.

In the time of Herodotus, the inhabitants of the city of Gergis were still considered a remnant of the ancient Teucrians, who, in company with the Mysians, had crossed the Bosphorus into Europe before the time of the Trojan war, and, after conquering all Thrace, had pressed forward till they came to the Ionian Sea (the modern Adriatic), while southward they reached as far as the river Peneus. According to some writers, these Mysians appear to have been Thracians, who had come into Asia from Europe.