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In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Dardanus (Greek

Greek language

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: ???da???, English translation

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: "burned up", from the verb da?d?pt? (dardapto) to wear, to slay, to burn up) was a son of Zeus

Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
and Electra

Electra (Pleiad)

The Pleiad Electra of Greek mythology was one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione . Electra was the wife of Corythus. She was raped by Zeus and gave birth to Dardanus, who became the founder of Troy, ancestor of Priam and his house....
, daughter of Atlas

Atlas (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Atlas was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klym?ne :...
, and founder of the city of Dardania

Dardania (Asia minor)

Dardania in Greek mythology is the name of a city founded on Mount Ida by Dardanus from which also the region and the people took their name. It lay on the Hellespont, and is the source of the strait's modern name, the Dardanelles....
on Mount Ida

Mount Ida

In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida, Crete, and Mount Ida, Turkey, known as Mount Ida, Turkey in Classical times....
in the Troad.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1.61–62) states that Dardanus' original home was in Arcadia

Arcadia

Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
where Dardanus and his elder brother Iasus (elsewhere more commonly called Iasion

Iasion

In Greek mythology, Iasion or Iasus was usually the son of Electra and Zeus and brother of Dardanus. Iasion founded the mystic rites on the island of Samothrace....
) reigned as kings following Atlas.

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Zeus

Electra (Pleiad)

Atlas (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Atlas was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia or Klym?ne :...
, and founder of the city of Dardania

Dardania (Asia minor)

Mount Ida

Arcadia

Iasion

Chryse

*In Greek mythology, Chryse was a lover of Ares and mother of Phlegyas.*Chryse Island is an island in the Mediterranean where, in Greek mythology, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake....
daughter of Pallas by whom he fathered two sons: Idaeus and Dymas

Dymas

In Greek mythology, Dymas is the name attributed to at least four individuals.The first Dymas was a Phrygian king and father of Hecabe , wife to King Priam of Troy....
. When a great flood occurred, the survivors, who were living on mountains that had now become islands, split into two groups: one group remained and took Deimas as king while the other sailed away, eventually settling in the island of Samothrace

Samothrace

Samothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing deme in the prefecture of Evros, Greece. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 ....
. There Iasus (Iasion) was slain by Zeus

Zeus

Demeter

File:Demeter in horse chariot w daughter kore 83d40m wikiC Tempio Y di Selinunte sec VIa.JPGDemeter , in Greek mythology, is the Goddess of cereal and fertility, the pure....
. Dardanus and his people found the land poor and so most of them set sail for Asia.

However another account by Virgil

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
in his Aeneid
Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
(3.163f), has Aeneas in a dream learn from his ancestral Penates that "Dardanus and Father Iasius" and the Penates themselves originally came from Hesperia which was afterward renamed as Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. This tradition holds that Dardanus was a Tyrrhenian

Tyrrhenians

The Tyrrhenians or Tyrsenians is an exonym used by Ancient Greece authors to refer to a pre-Greek....
prince, and that his mother Electra was married to Corythus, king of Tarquinia (Aeneid 7.195-242; 8. 596 ss. ; 9. 10; Servio, ad Vergilium, Aeneidos, 9.10).

Other accounts make no mention of Arcadia or Hesperia, though they sometimes mention a flood and speak of Dardanus sailing on a hide-raft (as part of the flood story?) from Samothrace

Samothrace

Abydos, Hellespont

Abydos , an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont....
. All accounts agree that Dardanus came to the Troad from Samothrace and was there welcomed by King Teucer and that Dardanus married Batea

Batea

*In Greek mythology, Batea was a daughter of King Teucer and wife of Dardanus. Alternative: Arisbe, Bateia*Batea, Tarragona is also one of the larger municipalities in the rural Comarques of Catalonia of Terra Alta, Tarragona province, Catalonia, Spain....
the daughter of Teucer. (Dionysius mentions that Dardanus' first wife Chryse had died.) Dardanus received land on Mount Ida

Mount Ida

In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida, Crete, and Mount Ida, Turkey, known as Mount Ida, Turkey in Classical times....
from his father-in-law. There Dardanus founded the city of Dardania

Dardania (Asia minor)

Ilus

Ilus is the name of several mythological persons associated directly or indirectly with Troy....
, Erichthonius

Erichthonius of Dardania

The mythical King Erichthonius of Dardania was the son of Dardanus or Darda, King of Dardania , and Batea , .Fundamentally, all that is known of this Erichthonius comes from Homer, who says :...
and Idaea

Idaea

Idaea can mean:* Idaea , a genus of geometer moths, including Idaea aversata, Idaea biselata and Idaea seriata.* In Greek mythology, Idaea was a nymph, wife of Scamander and mother of King Teucer....
. According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1.50.3), Dardanus also had a son named Zacynthus by Bataea and this Zacynthus was the first settler on the island afterwards called Zacynthus. Dionysius also says (1.61.4) that Dardanus's son Idaeus gave his name to the Idaean mountains, that is Mount Ida

Mount Ida

In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida, Crete, and Mount Ida, Turkey, known as Mount Ida, Turkey in Classical times....
, where Idaeus built a temple to the Mother of the Gods (that is to Cybele

Cybele

Cybele , was the Phrygian deification of the Earth Mother. As with Greek Gaia , or her Minoan civilization equivalent Rhea , Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls and fortresses, nature, wild animals ....
) and instituted mysteries and ceremonies still observed in Phrygia

Phrygia

In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. The Phrygians initially lived in the Southern Balkans; according to Herodotus, under the name of Bryges, changing it to Phruges after their final migration to Anatolia, via the Hellespont....
in Dionysius's time. There are opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s on the subject of Dardanus by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Dardanus (opera)

Dardanus is an opera in five acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau. The French-language libretto was by Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bru?re....
(1739), Carl Stamitz

Carl Stamitz

Karel Stamic , who took the German form of his name Karl Philipp Stamitz and is now better known as Carl, was a Czech-German composer, violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso....
(1770) and Antonio Sacchini

Dardanus (Sacchini)

Dardanus is an opera in four acts by Antonio Sacchini. It was first performed at Versailles, on the 18th of September, 1784. The libretto was adapted by Nicolas-Fran?ois Guillard from that of Jean-Philippe Rameau's earlier Dardanus ....
(1784).

One last claim identifies Dardanus with a biblical Darda who is said to be a son of Zerah. The subject is debatable due to Zerah's name being similar to that of Zeus's and his wife, Hera. According to the Old Testament

Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
, Zerah was Pharez's twin brother, the former had his whereabouts unknown whereas the former bore Juda, founder of the tribe that bears same name.

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