DARDANUS

dardanus, in greek legend, son of zeus and electra, the mythical founder of dardanus on the hellespont and ancestor of the dardans of the troad and, through aeneas, of the romans. his original home was supposed to have been arcadia, where he married chryse, who brought him as dowry the palladium or image of pallas, presented to her by the goddess herself. having slain his brother iasius or iasion (according to others, iasius was struck by lightning), dardanus fled across the sea. he first stopped at samothrace, and when the island was visited by a flood, crossed over to the troad. being hospitably received by teucer, he married his daughter batea and became the founder of the royal house of troy. see apollodorus iii. 12; diod. sic. v. 48-75; virgil, _aeneid_, iii. 163 ff.; articles in pauly-wissowa's _realencyclopadie_ and roscher's _lexikon der mythologie_.