In ancient times, Iasion and Dardanus ruled the island of Samote in the Aegean Sea. They were both sons of Zeus and Pleiades, the goddess of the sea.Iasion thought he was the son of a god, so he dared to spy on a woman on the holy mountain of Olympus, and chased the goddess Demeter with fanatical feelings.To punish him for his audacity, Zeus struck him down with lightning.Dardanus was very sad about the death of his brother, so he left his hometown and went to the mainland of Asia, and came to the Gulf of Mysia.It was the confluence of the West Moise and the Scommantle into the sea.The towering Ada Mountains grew smaller and smaller in the distance, until they disappeared into the Great Plains.The king here is Teucros, an indigenous Cretan, so the herdsmen in this area are also called Teucrians.

King Teucer received him warmly, rewarded him with a piece of land, and betrothed his daughter to him.The place was named after him, called Dardania, and the Teucrians who lived in this area were renamed Dardanians from then on.After the death of Dardanus, his son Erichthonius succeeded to the throne, and later Tros succeeded Erichthonius to the throne.From then on, the area ruled by Troas was called Troas, and the capital of Troas was called Troy.Now the Teucrians and the Dardanians are naturally both called Trojans, or Trojans. After the death of King Telos, the eldest son Iros succeeded to the throne.On one occasion he visited the neighboring country of Frigia.The king invited him to a wrestling contest.Iros was victorious and was rewarded with fifty boys, fifty girls, and a piebald cow.The king also told him an oracle: where the cows lay resting, he must build a castle.

Iros drove the cows away, because the place where the cows rested was the place that had been the capital of the country since Tros, that is, Troy.So he built a strong castle on the hill there, called Iliam, also called Ilias, or Pergamas.Later, the place was sometimes called Troy, sometimes Eliam, and sometimes Pergamas.Before building the city, Iros prayed for a sign from his ancestor Zeus to see if the gods would agree with his plan to build the city.The next day, Iros picked up the image of the goddess Athena, which fell from the sky, in front of his tent. It was called the statue of Pallas.The statue is six feet tall, with its feet folded together, a spear in its right hand, and a spinning rod and spindle in its left.The origin of this idol is as follows: It is said that the goddess Athena was adopted by the sea god Triton after she was born.Triton had another daughter named Pallas, who happened to be of the same age as Athena.The two girls played games together and became good friends.One day, two young girls held a game competition to see who was stronger.When Pallas put on a posture and was about to assassinate her girlfriend, Zeus was worried that his daughter would be injured, so he blocked an aegis in front of her.It was made of goatskin, very solid.When Pallas saw it, he was taken aback, revealed a flaw, and was shot by Athena.The goddess was deeply saddened by her death.To commemorate her girlfriend, she made a statue for her girlfriend Pallas, and put a breastplate like a sheepskin shield around the statue.Athena placed the statue in front of Zeus's statue as a sign of respect.From then on she called herself Pallas Athena.Now, with his daughter's consent, Zeus lowered the statue of Pallas from the sky, implying that the castle of Iliam was under his and his daughter's protection.

Laomedon, the son of King Iros, was a domineering, vicious and cruel man. He not only deceived the people of the country, but also deceived the gods.Seeing that the city of Troy was not well fortified, he wanted to build a wall around it to surround the city.At that time, Apollo and Poseidon were expelled from the kingdom of heaven because they opposed Zeus, and they were wandering in the world.Zeus saw all this in his eyes, and he wanted the two gods to help King Laomedon build a city wall, so that the city he and his daughter protected had an impregnable city wall.The goddess of fate sent them to the city of Troy.Because they had nothing to do, they recommended themselves to Laomedon and worked hard for the king for a year for only a low salary.The king agreed.Poseidon helped build the city walls.The city wall was built high and wide, very strong.And Phoebus Apollo grazed the king's cattle in the valleys and banks of Mount Ida.A year passed, and the majestic city walls were completed.But the king, Laomedon, refused to pay them, so they argued with the king.Apollo vehemently reprimanded the king for breaking his promise, and the king ordered the two of them to be expelled from the country, and threatened to tie Apollo's hands and feet and cut off their ears.The two gods swore that they would not live together with the king, and they became enemies of the Trojans ever since.Athena also stopped protecting the city, and later Hera also joined in and opposed the city.With the acquiescence and support of Zeus, the city was left to the gods to destroy, and with it its king and people.