One generation before the Trojan War, Heracles captured Troy and killed
Laomedon and his sons, except for young Priam. Priam later became king. During
his reign, the Mycenaean Greeks invaded and captured Troy in the Trojan War
(traditionally dated to 1193 BC-1183 BC). The Maxyans were a west Libyan tribe
who said that they were descended from the men of Troy, according to Herodotus.
The Trojan ships transformed into naiads, who rejoiced to see the wreckage of
Odysseus' ship.
Trojan rule in Asia Minor was replaced by the "sons of Herakles" dynasty in
Sardis that ruled for 505 years until the time of Candaules. The Ionians,
Cimmerians, Phrygians, Milesians of Sinope, and Lydians moved into Asia Minor.
The Persians invaded in 546 BC.
Some famous Trojans are: Dardanus (founder of Troy), Laomedon, Ganymede, Priam,
Paris, Hector, Teucer, Aesacus, Oenone, Telamon, Tithonus, Antigone, Memnon,
Corythus, Aeneas, Brutus, and Elymus. Kapys, Boukolion, Aisakos, and Paris were
Trojan princes who had naias wives. Some of the Trojan allies were the Hittites
and the Amazons. The Aisepid nymphs were the naiads of the Trojan River Aisepos.
Pegsis was the naiad of the River Grenikos near Troy.
A Trojan law mentioned by E.O. Gordon allowed queens as well as kings. This law
was adopted by King Dunvallo Molmutius (from Brutus) in his code and is still in
effect today in Britain.
Mount Ida ("Mount of the Goddess") in Asia Minor, is where Ganymede was abducted
by Zeus, where Anchises was seduced by Aphrodite, where Aphrodite gave birth to
Aeneas, where Paris lived as a shepherd, where the nymphs lived, where the "Judgement
of Paris" took place, where the Greek gods watched the Trojan War, where Hera
distracted Zeus with her seductions long enough to permit the taking of Troy,
and where Aeneas and his followers rested and waited until the Greeks set out
for Greece. The altar of Panomphaean (‘source of all oracles’) was dedicated to
Jupiter the Thunderer (Tonatus) near Troy. Buthrotos (or Buthrotum) was a city
in Epirus where Helenus, the Trojan seer, built a replica of Troy. Aeneas landed
there and Helenus foretold his future.