A town near Troy.
During the Trojan War, Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Achaian army, insulted and threatened Apollon's priest, Khryses. Praying for justice, Khryses referred to the god Apollon as Smintheus1 and lord of Khryse, holy Killa, and Tenedos.2
1. Smintheus—an epithet for Apollon as lord of the town Smintheion.
2. Tenedos—this reference was to the town of Tenedos and not the island with the same name.
References: Homer, Iliad book 1, lines 38, 452 |