In
Greek mythology, Dardanus (
Greek Δάρδανος "burned up", from the verb δαρδάπτω (dardapto) to wear, to slay, to burn) was a son of
Zeus and
Electra, daughter of
Atlas, and founder of the city of
Dardania on
Mount Ida in the
Troad.Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1.61–62) states that Dardanus' original home was in
Arcadia where Dardanus and his elder brother Iasus (elsewhere more commonly called
Iasion) reigned as kings following Atlas. Dardanus married
Chryse daughter of
Pallas by whom he fathered two sons: Idaeus and
Dymas. 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. There Iasus (Iasion) was slain by
Zeus for lying with
Demeter. Dardanus and his people found the land poor and so most of them set sail for Asia.
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[Greek] The son of Zeus and Electra. He sailed from Samothrace to Troas in a raft made of hides. He eventually married Batea, the daughter of King Teucer, who gave him land near Abydos. There he founded the city of Dardania (the later, ill-fated city of Troy).
Dardanus (Greek) One of the demigods or divine instructors, the son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. He was king in Arcadia, whence he transferred the kabiri-gods to Samothrace and afterwards to
Asia, where he became the ancestor of the royal house of Troy.
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