Dardanos (son of Zeus)
Dardanos ( Greek Δάρδανος, Latin Dardanus), according to Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and the Atlantide Elektra , a daughter of Atlas . He founded the legendary city of Dardania (Δαρδανία) or Dardanos in the Troas on the Dardanelles and is considered the mythical progenitor and eponym of the Trojan Dardans as well as the Trojans that emerged from them , and finally also the Romans through Aeneas . His homeland was Arcadia , where he and his first wife, Chryse , who received the Palladion and the sanctuaries ( sacra ) of the great gods as a dowry from Pallas Athene , is said to have fathered Deimas and Idaios .
Along with Deukalion and Ogygos, he is one of the Greek flood heroes who are said to have survived a great flood .
In ancient times, two brothers ruled, Iasion (also Iasios, Iasos, Iason or equated with Eëtion) with his younger brother Dardanos (also called Polyarches), sons of Zeus and a nymph, princes of the country, who worshiped Atlas. Of these, Iasion, as a son of a god, dared to lift his eyes to a daughter of Olympus, threw an impetuous inclination on the goddess Demeter and, as punishment for his boldness, was struck by lightning by his own father. Deeply saddened by the death of his brother, Dardanos left his empire and home, although his emigration over troubled seas - initially probably caused by water and famine - must be justified as an atonement. The island of Samothrace (which is said to have been called Dardania earlier) in the Aegean Sea was allegedly only a stop for Dardanos and his son Idaios, although Dardanos was also identified with the Kabiren Kadmilos.
Also driven from here by the flood, they turned to the Asian mainland Phrygia , where Dardanos at the foot of the Idaberg , welcomed by King Teukros and, thanks to the grace that the son found with the “Idaean” mother of gods, now again the protection of the Gods ordered to found the solid city of Dardania, which perished in prehistoric times. With his second wife, Bateia , daughter of Teukros (or Arisbe of Crete), he fathered Zakynthos , Ilos and Erichthonios , whose son Tros was to become the father of Ilos , the founder of Troy. Dardanos became the progenitor of the Trojan royal house, from which Priam derived his family, which is also called the Dardanids.
According to later legend, Dardanos came from the Etruscan city of Kortona , so that Aeneas returned to Italy as the original home of his family.
Adaptations of the Myth
- Dardanus (1739), opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Dardanus (1784), an opera in four acts by Antonio Sacchini
Secondary literature
- Eduard Thraemer : Dardanos 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901.
- Ludwig von Sybel : Dardanos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 962 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Homer Iliad 20, 215.
- ↑ Apollodorus 3, 12, 1.2; Scholion to Lycophron 72; Athenikon b; Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 916.
- ↑ Skymn. 689; Apollodor 8, 12; Strabo 13,606; Hyginus f. 275; Diodorus 4, 75; Schol. Lyk. 29; Nonn. Dion. 3, 191; Preller-Plew.
- ↑ Diodorus 4:75 ; Mnaseas .
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1:68.
- ↑ a b At Scholion at Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 916.
- ↑ Pausanias 7: 4, 3; Kallim. frg. 397 at Plin. 4, 73.
- ↑ Cf. Iliad 2, 813: Batieia Hill; Apollodor 3, 12; Diodorus Siculus 4, 76.
- ↑ Lykophr. 1308.
- ↑ Pausanias 8:24 , 3; Steph. Byz. Ζάκυνθος ; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1:50.
- ↑ Iliad 20:219; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1, 61, 68, 69; Apollodorus 3, 12.