The second river of the Trojan plain — born to Oceanus and Tethys, paired with Scamander in battle and in genealogy; father of Astyoche, whom Erichthonius married to continue the royal line of Troy.1
Hesiod counts Simois among the holy rivers Tethys bore to Ocean — set beside Scamander's name in the Theogony's catalogue of the world's eddying streams.2
Homer gives the river a human face on the battlefield. Ajax slew Simoeisius, a youth born beside the banks of Simois as his mother journeyed down from Ida — 'for this cause they called him Simoeisius' — and the poet remembers how many shields and helms fell by the streams of Simois when Apollo turned the mouths of Ida's rivers against the Achaean wall.3
When Scamander rose against Achilles for the corpses choking his channels, the river-god called Simoeis to his aid: 'Simoeis, beloved brother, let us both together stay the might of this man.' Only Hephaestus' fire and Hera's word stayed the flood that would have drowned the hero.4
Apollodorus weaves Simois into the Trojan stemma. When Ilus died childless, Erichthonius succeeded and married Astyoche, daughter of Simoeis; their son Tros called the country Troy after himself. So the second river of Ilion fathers the queen who links the Dardanid house to the stream beside Scamander.5
The river belongs to the plain beside Ilion as feature geography, not civic habitation — attested across Hesiod, Homer, and Apollodorus in one compound summary line. The summary-only residence-citation rule cannot isolate a single Troy-residence sentence matching residence sources; citation stays intentionally unset.6
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