Dardanus

Description

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mythology, Dardanus to wear, to slay, to burn up) 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.