Summary
Troilus (Τρωΐλος), the boy-prince on whose death before age twenty Troy's fall was hung (Cypria tradition; the ambush at the well is among the oldest painted scenes), is read in node م-٣ as the composite of the city's own two names: Τρω- + ῖλος = طور-إيل ("mount of El") or موئل-الطور. Grade ج — structurally among the file's firmest nodes despite lacking an intermediate witness. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)
Symbolic Reading
The eponymic logic is complete: the boy who is the city by name shares its fate — مات طروإيل فسقط طور-الموئل. The Greeks themselves understood the name as compounding the ancestors Tros and Ilus, i.e. they too read it as the city's two names fused. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)
Linguistic Root
ṭ-w-r + ʾ-l (with w-ʾ-l as the refined reading of the second element via Wilusa). Confidence: ج. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)
Cross-Cultural Parallels
- Troy — the city whose name-pair he carries
- Eponym-fate coupling — compare the dying-boy-as-city motif with Adonis's dying-youth vegetation arc: different mechanisms, same fusion of person and cyclical fate
- Trojan Onomastics and the Levantine Substrate
Open Questions
- No intermediate textual witness ties the composite reading to a Semitic source; the strength is structural (name = city = fate). The dossier accepts this openly. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)