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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Troilus butterfly \Tro"i*lus butterfly\ A large American butterfly ( Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear; -- also called troilus.
Wikipedia
Troilus ( or ; ; ) is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War. The first surviving reference to him is in Homer's Iliad, which scholars believe was composed by bards and sung in the late 9th or 8th century BC.
In Greek mythology, Troilus is a young Trojan prince, one of the sons of King Priam (or sometimes Apollo) and Hecuba. Prophecies link Troilus' fate to that of Troy and so he is ambushed and murdered by Achilles. Sophocles was one of the writers to tell this tale. It was also a popular theme among artists of the time. Ancient writers treated Troilus as the epitome of a dead child mourned by his parents. He was also regarded as a paragon of youthful male beauty.
In Western European medieval and Renaissance versions of the legend, Troilus is the youngest of Priam's five legitimate sons by Hecuba. Despite his youth he is one of the main Trojan war leaders. He dies in battle at Achilles' hands. In a popular addition to the story, originating in the 12th century, Troilus falls in love with Cressida, whose father has defected to the Greeks. Cressida pledges her love to Troilus but she soon switches her affections to the Greek hero Diomedes when sent to her father in a hostage exchange. Chaucer and Shakespeare are among the authors who wrote works telling the story of Troilus and Cressida. Within the medieval tradition, Troilus was regarded as a paragon of the faithful courtly lover and also of the virtuous pagan knight. Once the custom of courtly love had faded, his fate was regarded less sympathetically.
Little attention was paid to the character during the 18th and 19th centuries. However, Troilus has reappeared in 20th and 21st century retellings of the Trojan War by authors who have chosen elements from both the classical and medieval versions of his story.
Troilus is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War. Troilus may also refer to:
- Troilus of Elis (4th century BC), Greek athlete
- Troilus (philosopher), a sophist of the 4-5th century in Constantinople
- USS Troilus (AKA-46), an Artemis class attack cargo ship
- Troilus (genus), a genus of bugs in family Pentatomidae
Troilus of Constantinople was a sophist from Side in Pamphylia of the late 4th and early 5th century. He taught in Constantinople.
Usage examples of "troilus".
Bewailing his sad lot -- ensnared, exposed to the scorn of those whose love he had ridiculed, wishing himself arrived at the port of death, and praying ever that his lady might glad him with some kind look -- Troilus is surprised in his chamber by his friend Pandarus, the uncle of Cressida.
Troilus scouts the suggestion, saying that Pandarus could never govern himself in love.
Troilus writes the letter, and next morning Pandarus bears it to Cressida.
Meantime Pandarus instructs Troilus to go to the house of Deiphobus, plead an access of his fever for remaining all night, and keep his chamber next day.
Therefore, ere going a step further, Pandarus prays Troilus to give him pledges of secrecy, and impresses on his mind the mischiefs that flow from vaunting in affairs of love.
Then, beseeching Pandarus soon to perform out the great enterprise of crowning his love for Cressida, Troilus bade his friend good night.
Troilus hoping to find Cressida again in the city, Pandarus entertaining a scepticism which he concealed from his friend.
The tenth day, meantime, had barely dawned, when Troilus, accompanied by Pandarus, took his stand on the walls, to watch for the return of Cressida.
Troilus, looking downward, beholds the converse or convex side of the spheres which it has traversed.
Leaving Cressida to sleep, the poet returns to Troilus and his zealous friend -- with whose stratagems to bring the two lovers together the remainder of the Second Book is occupied.
His Troilus is a noble, sensitive, generous, puresouled, manly, magnanimous hero, who is only confirmed and stimulated in all virtue by his love, who lives for his lady, and dies for her falsehood, in a lofty and chivalrous fashion.
And thus she said to him, as ye may hear: As she that had her heart on Troilus So faste set, that none might it arace.
Troilus pitifully beseeches his friend to leave him to die alone, for die he must, from a cause which he must keep hidden.
Chaucer returned steeped in new material, but his epic of Troilus and Criseyde, adapted from Boccaccio, had to wait while he was dispatched to treat of peace with France.
Even more considerable and conspicuous is Chaucer's obligation to Boccaccio in the Troilus and Criseyde, about a third of which is borrowed from the Filostrato.