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Teucer
Two figures in
Greek mythology
had the name
Teucer
:
The son of
Hesione
and
Telamon
, Teucer fought with his half-brother,
Ajax the great
, in the
Trojan War
. His daughter,
Batea
, married
Dardanus
. This Teucer fought on the side of the Greeks against the
Trojans
.
Son of
Scamander
and Icaea, Teucer was the legendary ancestor of the Trojans. Hence Trojans were sometimes referred to as "
Teucrians
". This Teucer fought on the side of the Trojans against the Greeks. (In
Apollodorus
's
Bibliotheke
III, xii, 1.)
Alternative: Teucris