Son of Dardanus who died childless, so his brother Erichthonius succeeded to the kingdom in Apollodorus' account.1
I
Dardanus had sons born to him, Ilus and Erichthonius, of whom Ilus died childless, and Erichthonius succeeded to the kingdom and married Astyoche, daughter of Simoeis, and begat Tros.2⚖
II
Homer compresses the line: Dardanus begat Erichthonius directly, with no intervening childless son; and the Ilus honored in the Iliad as founder with a barrow on the plain is elsewhere son of Tros.3
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