- For Teucer, son of King Telamon of Salamis, see Teucer.
In
Greek mythology,
King Teucer, , (also
Teucrus) was said to have been the son of the river
Scamander and the nymph
Idaea. Before the arrival of
Dardanus, the land that would eventually be called
Dardania (and later still the
Troad) was known as Teucria and the inhabitants as Teucrians, after Teucer.