A river on the Troad.1
During the Trojan War, Pandaros commanded an undisclosed number of Trojan soldiers from Zeleia and the Aisepos River, below Mount Ida.
The war ended with Troy in ruins. The gods deemed it necessary to wash away the wall the Akhaians built to protect their ships. Guided by the hand of Apollon, the Aisepos and other rivers2 on the Troad were diverted from their natural courses to form a unified body of water. They flowed for nine days across the plain between Mount Ida and the sea. The god Zeus augmented the river torrents with constant rain. Poseidon, lord of the sea, used his trident to hurl the bastions of the wall into the surging water. Satisfied with their handiwork, the gods returned the rivers to their original channels.
1. Troad—the region surrounding Troy from the Aigean Sea to Mysia.
2. Rhesos, Heptaporos, Karesos, Rhodios, Grenikos, Skamandros, and Simoeis
| References: Homer, Iliad book 2, line 825; book 4, line 91; book 12, line 21 |