See also: Dardanus

In the Greek Mythology, Dardanos or Dardanus (in Greek old Δάρδανος / Dárdanos ) is the hero éponyme of the Dardanie, wire of the union between Zeus and the pleiad Electra. It has as a brother Iasion.

Myth

At Denys d' Halicarnasse, Dardanos would have known a first marriage with Chrysé, of which it would have had several wire.

But this tradition is in addition unknown, and according to the more famous account of the Pseudo-Apollodore, Dardanos, coming from Samothrace, is established in Troade where he marries Batia (the girl of the local king Teucros). It founds then the town of Dardanie and is at the origin of the people of the “Dardaniens”. He is the father of Ilos and Érichthonios. Ilos is its successor but he dies without child, Érichthonios goes up then on the throne and its descendants are at the origin of the town of Troy and its royal dynasty.

According to Virgile, Énée (descendant of Dardanos) “sees” after the falls of Troy the Pénates which say to him to turn over to the country of the origins of Dardanos, i.e. the Hespérie (current Italy).

Dardanos the Jew

There existed also another Dardanos, living at the same time as that one: Dardanos the Jew. He would have been a son of Zéra, wire of Juda, ancestor of the Tribu of Juda and would have fled the Egypt when new the King began the slavery of the Hebrew . He took refuge then in the area which constitutes the Dardanie today. According to certain historians, this Dardanos would have been Dardanos of Trojan for several reasons of which resemblance of the name of their father (in mythology Greek, Dardanos was the son of Zeus).

Sources

• (III, 12,1-2).

• (I, 62).
• (XX, 216).
• (III, 121-191).

See too

• Dardanus , opera of Jean-Philippe Branch

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