Dardanus

Dardănus, i, m., Δάρδανος.

• The son of Jupiter and Electra of Arcadia, founder of the city Dardania, in Troas, and ancestor of the royal race of Troy, Att. ap. Schol. Bern. ad Verg. G. 1, 502 (v. 653 Ribb.); Verg. A. 8, 134 Serv.; 6, 650; 3, 167 al.; cf. Heyne Verg. A. 3 Excurs. 6; Lact. 1, 23, 3: acc. Dardanon, Ov. F. 4, 31. —
• • B Hence,
  • • 1 Dardănus, a, um, adj., Dardanian, poet. for Trojan: praeda, Prop. 1, 19, 14: puppis, i.e. of Aeneas, id. 4, 1, 40 (5, 1, 40 M.): arma, Verg. A. 2, 618: pubes, id. ib. 5, 119: gens, Hor. Od. 1, 15, 10: Troja, Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 4; also for Roman, as the Romans were descendants of Aeneas: ductor, i.e. the Roman, Scipio Africanus, Sil. 1, 14.—
    • 2 Dardănĭus, a, um, adj., Dardanian, poet. for Trojan: gentes, Att. ap. Apul. de Deo Soc. 24 (v. 523 Ribbeck): gens, Verg. A. 1, 602: Aeneae, id. ib. 1, 494; 6, 169; cf. carinae, i.e. of Aeneas, id. ib. 4, 658; and pinus, the same, Ov. F. 1, 519: Anchisae, Verg. A. 1, 617; 9, 647: Iulus (son of Aeneas), Ov. M. 15, 767: Roma, id. ib. 15, 431: vates, i.e. Helenus, id. ib. 13, 335: advena, i.e. Paris, id. H. 8, 42: senex, i.e. Priam, id. Tr. 3, 5, 38: triumphus, Prop. 2, 14, 1 (3, 6, 1 M): minister, i.e. Ganymedes, Mart. 11, 104, et saep.—
    • • b Subst.: Dardănia, ae, f.,
      • • α the city Dardania, founded by Dardanus on the Hellespont, S. W. of Abydos (whence its mod. name, the Dardanelles), Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 25. Oftener, esp. in Vergil,
        • β poet. for Troja, Verg. A. 2, 281; 325; 3, 52; Ov. H. 16, 57.—
    • 3 Dardănĭdes, ae, m., son or descendant of Dardanus: Ilus, Ov. F. 6, 419.—Absol. for Aeneas, Verg. A. 10, 545; 12, 775.—In plur. for Trojan: pastores, id. ib. 2, 59.—Absol. for Trojans, id. ib. 2, 72; 445 et saep.—
    • 4 Dardănis, ĭdis, f., adj., Dardanian, poet. for Trojan: matres, Ov. M. 13, 412: nurus, id. H. 16, 194; 17, 212: Caieta (founded by Trojans), Mart. 10, 30.—Absol. for Creüsa, Verg. A. 2, 787.
• II A magician of Phoenicia, Plin. 30, 1, 2, § 9; Ap. Apol. p. 331, 14.—Hence,
• • • 2 Dardănius, a, um, adj., of Dardanus: poet. for Magic, artes, Col. 10, 358.
• III A Stoic philosopher otherwise unknown, Cic. Ac. 2 (Luc.), 22, 69.

Dardănus, a, um; v. the preceding art. no. I. B. 1.

Dardanus, ī, m. (Δάρδανος), Sohn Jupiters u. der Elektra aus Arkadien, Gründer der Stadt Dardania in Troas, Ahnherr des trojanischen Herrscherstammes, dah. auch der (von Äneas abstammenden) Römer, Verg. Aen. 3, 167. Lact. 1, 23, 3: Akk. Dardanon, Ov. fast. 4, 31. – Dav.: A) Dardanidēs, ae, Vok. a, Genet. Plur. ûm, m. (Δαρδανίδης), der Dardanide, Iulus, Ov.; absol. = Äneas, Verg., u. = der Römer Scipio Afrikanus, Sil.: im Plur. trojanisch, pastores Dardanidae, Verg.: absol. = Trojaner, Verg. – B) Dardanis, nidis, Akk. Plur. nidas, f. (Δαρδανίς), die Dardanide, poet. = Trojanerin, trojanisch, Ov.: Creusa (von Trojanern gegründet), Mart.: absol. = Krëusa, Verg. – C) Dardanius, a, um (Δαρδάνιος), dardanisch, poet. = trojanisch, gens, Verg.: advena, Paris, Ov.: senex, Priamus, Ov.: dux, Äneas, Ov.: carinae, Verg., od. pinus, Ov., Schiffe des Äneas: vates, Helenus, Ov.: Iulus (Sohn des Äneas), Ov.: Roma, Ov. u. Sil.: minister, Ganymedes, Mart. – subst., Dardania, ae, f. (Δαρδανία), α) die von Dardanus gegründete Stadt Dardania am Hellespont, südwestl. von Abydus, Ov. trist. 1, 10, 25. – β) poet. = Troja, Verg., Ov. u.a. – γ) die Landschaft Dardania in Obermösien, Sitz der Dardaner (s. unten Dardani), Varro r. r. 2, 1, 5. – D) Dardanus, a, um, dardanisch, poet. = trojanisch, puppis, des Äneas, Verg.: gens, Hor. – od. = römisch, ductor, der Römer Scipio Afrikanus, Sil. – subst., Dardanī, ōrum, m. (Δάρδανοι), eine Völkerschaft in Obermösien, dem heutigen Serbien, Caes. u.a.

Dardanus [CL] , descended from Dardanus. b Trojan (w. ref. to ludus Trojanus). Dardana proles [i. e. Ganymedes] Aldh. Aen. 57 (Aquila) 3.  b hinc thessara, calculus, tabula, urio vel ~a pugna J. Sal. Pol. 399c.

1 Dardănus, (12) a, um , ¶ 1 de Dardanus, Troyen ; subst^t m. , = Énée : Virg. En. 4, 662 || Romain : Dardanus ductor Sil. 1. 14, Scipion lʼAfricain ¶ 2 de Dardanie [en Mésie], v. Dardani : Plin. 3, 149.

2 Dardănus, (13) ī, m. (Δάρδανος), fondateur de Troie : Virg. En. 8, 134 || magicien de Phénicie : Plin. 30, 9 || philosophe stoïcien : Cic. Ac. 2, 69.

Da'rdanus

(Δάρδανος), a son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas. He was the brother of Jasus, Jasius, Jason, or Jasion, Aetion and Harmonia, and his native place in the various traditions is Arcadia, Crete, Troas, or Italy. (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. 3.167.) Dardanus is the mythical ancestor of the Trojans, and through them of the Romans. It is necessary to distinguish between the earlier Greek legends and the later ones which we meet with in the poetry of Italy. According to the former, he was married to Chryse,the daughter of Palas, in Arcadia, who bore him two sons, Idaeus and Deimas. These sons ruled for a time over the kingdom of Atlas in Arcadia, but then they separated on account of a great flood, and the calamities resulting from it. Deimas remained in Arcadia, while Idaeus emigrated with his father, Dardanus. They first arrived in Samothrace, which was henceforth called Dardania, and after having established a colony there, they went to Phrygia. Here Dardanus received a tract of land from king Teucrus, on which he built the town of Dardanus. At his marriage with Chryse, she had brought him as a dowry the palladia and sacra of the great gods, whose worship she had learned, and which worship Dardanusintroducedinto Samothrace, though without making the people acquainted with the names of the gods. Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 8.285) states, that he also instituted the Salii in Samothrace. When he went to Phrygia he took the images of the gods with him; and when, after forming the plan of founding a town, he consulted the oracle, he was told, among other things, that the town should remain invincible as long as the sacred dowry of his wife should be preserved in the country under the protection of Athena. After the death of Dardanus those palladia (others mention only one palladium) were carried to Troy by his descendants. When Chryse died, Dardanus married Bateia, the daughter of Teucrus, or Arisbe of Crete, by whom he became the father of Erichthonius and Idaea. (Hom. Il. 20.215, &c.; Apollod. 3.12.1, &c., 15.3; Dionys. A. R. 1.61, &c.; Lycophr. 1302; Eustath. ad Il. p. 1204; Conon. Narr. 21; Strab. vii. p.331; Paus. 7.4.3, 19.3; Diod. 4.49; Serv. ad Aen. 1.32.)

According to the Italian traditions, Dardanus was the son of Corythus, an Etruscan prince of Corythus (Cortona), or of Zeus by the wife of Corythus. (Serv. ad Aen. 9.10, 7.207.) In a battle with the Aborigines, Dardanus lost his helmet (κόρυς); and although he was already beaten, he led his troops to a fresh attack, in order to recover his helmet. He gained the victory, and called the place where this happened Corythus. He afterwards emigrated with his brother Jasius from Etruria. Dardanus went to Phrygia, where he founded the Dardanian kingdom, and Jasius went to Samothrace, after they had previously divided the Penates between themselves. (Serv. ad Aen. 3.15, 167, 170, 7.207, 210.) There are four other mythical personages of the name of Dardanus. (Hom. Il. 20.459; Eustath. ad Il. pp. 380, 1697; Paus. 8.24.2.) [L.S]

Da'rdanus

(Δάρδανος).

1. A Stoic philosopher and contemporary of Antiochus of Ascalon (about B. C. 110), who was at the head of the Stoic school at Athens together with Mnesarchus. (Cic. Ac. 2.22; Zumpt, Ueber den Bestand der Philos. Schulen in Athen, p. 80)

Da'rdanus

2. A Greek sophist, a native of Assyria, is mentioned by Philostratus (Vit. Soph. 2.4) as the teacher of Antiochus of Aegae, according to which he must have lived in the second century after Christ. [L.S]

Da'rdanus

(Δάρδανος), the fourth in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Sostratus I., and the father of Crisamis I., who lived probably in the eleventh century B. C. (Jo. Tzetzes, Chil. vii. Hist. 155, in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xii. p. 680, ed. vet.) [W.A.G]

DARDANUS

DA´RDANUS, DA´RDANUM (ἡ Δάρδανος, τὸ Δάρδανον: Eth. Δαρδανεύς), a city of the Troad, originally named Teucris. According to the legend told by Mnaseas (Steph. B. s. v. Δάρδανος), Dardanus built or settled Dardanus, and named the country Dardania, which was called Teucris before. [DARDANIA] This old story of Dardanus being the founder of the city, is reported by various other authorities. (Apollod. 3.12.1; Diod. 4.75; Conon. apud Phot. Narr. 21.) It seems that the city was sometimes called Dardania as well as the country. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.30) names it Dardanium. It was situated on the Hellespont, about a mile south of the promontory Dardanis or Dardanium (Map of the Plain of Troy, by Capt. Graves and T. A. B. Spratt, Esq., London Geog. Journal, vol. xii.), and 70 stadia from Abydus. Between Abydus and Dardanus, says Strabo (p. 595), is the Rhodius. There are two streams marked in the map: one nearer Dardanus, which enters the Hellespont close to the promontory of Dardanis; and another near Sultania, a little north of which is the site of Abydus. Dr. Forchhammer, in the map referred to, which contains his determination of the ancient sites, makes the stream at Sultania to be the ancient Rhodius; and this appears to be right, according to Strabo, who says that it enters the sea opposite to Cynossema in the Chersonesus. Strabo adds, however, some say that the Rhodius flows into the Aesepus; but of course the Rhodius must then be a different river from the stream that enters the sea between Abydus and Dardanus (pp. 598, 603). Homer mentions the Rhodius (Il. 12.20).

Strabo observes that the Dardanus of his time, the town on the coast, was not the old town of Dardanus, or Dardania, which appears from the Iliad to have been at the foot of Ida. It was an older town than Ilium, and did not exist in Strabo's time. The later town was an Aeolian settlement, and it is mentioned among the towns on the Hellespont, which Daurises the Persian took after the burning of Sardis. (Hdt. 5.117.) In another place (6.43), Herodotus observes that Dardanus bordered on the territory of Abydus; which might also be safely inferred from the passage in the fifth book. It is mentioned by Scylax in his Periplus of the Troad. In the battle between the Athenians and Peloponnesians in the twenty-first year of the Peloponnesian War (B.C. 411), the line of the 68 ships of the Peloponnesians extended from Abydus to Dardanus (Thuc. 8.104); a statement that can hardly be correct, for the ships that were outside of the promontory of Dardanis would be completely separated from the rest. Strabo (p. 595) says that Dardanus was so weak a place, that the kings, by whom he means Alexander's successors, some of them several times removed all the people to Abydus, and others moved them back again to their old place. On this spot L. Cornelius Sulla and Mithridates met, after Sulla had crossed over from Europe, and here they came to terms about putting an end to the war, B.C. 84. (Strab. p. 595; Plut. Sull. 100.24.) It was at that time a free city, having been declared such by the Romans after the peace with king Antiochus, B.C. 190, in honour of the Trojan descent of the people. (Liv. 37.9, 37, 38.39.)

There are many imperial coins of Dardanus; and the name of the river Rhodius appears on a medal of Domna. Sestini, Mon. Vet. p. 76.( Cramer, Asia Minor, vol. 1. p. 82.) This seems to show that the stream which flows into the Hellespont near the cape Dardanis, is the Rhodius, and not the river nearer Abydus; but it is not decisive. The modern name Dardanelles is generally supposed to be derived from the name of Dardanus.

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Dardănus

(Δάρδανος). (1) The son of Zeus and Electra, the mythical ancestor of the Trojans, and through them of the Romans. The Greek traditions usually made him a king in Arcadia, from whence he emigrated first to Samothrace, and afterwards to Asia, where he received a tract of land from King Teucer, on which he built the town of Dardania. His grandson Tros removed to Troy the Palladium, which had belonged to his grandfather. According to the Italian traditions, Dardanus was the son of Corythus, an Etruscan prince of Corythus (Cortona); and, as in the Greek tradition, he afterwards emigrated to Phrygia.

(2) Also Dardănum (Δάρδανον), a Greek city in the Troad on the Hellespont, twelve Roman miles from Ilium, built by Aeolian colonists, at some distance from the site of the ancient city Dardania. From Dardanum arose the name of the Castles of the Dardanelles, after which the Hellespont is now called.

Dardanus Dardanus, a city built by Dardanus

• Apollod. 1.4.5
• on the Hellespont: Hdt. 5.117, Hdt. 7.43

Dardanus(2), son of Zeus and Electra

• Apollod. 3.11.2
• leaves Samothrace, marries the daughter of KingTeucer, and calls the country Dardania: Apollod. 3.11.2
• father of Idaea: Apollod. 3.15.2
• receives image of Dionysus in chest from Zeus: Paus. 7.19.6

Dardanus(3), a Psophidian

• father of Zacynthus: Paus. 8.24.3