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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DARDANUS , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Zeus and See also:Electra, the mythical founder of Dardanus on the See also:Hellespont and ancestor of the Dardans of the See also:Troad and, through See also:Aeneas, of the See also:Romans. His See also:original See also:home was supposed to have been See also:Arcadia, where he married Chryse, who brought him as See also:dowry the See also:Palladium or See also:image of See also:Pallas, presented to her by the goddess herself Having slain his See also:brother Iasius or Iasion (according to others, Iasius was struck by See also:lightning), Dardanus fled across the See also:sea. He first stopped at See also:Samothrace, and when the See also:island was visited by a See also:flood, crossed over to the Troad. Being hospitably received by Teucer, he married his daughter Batea and became the founder of the royal See also:house of See also:Troy. See See also:Apollodorus iii. 12; Diod. Sic. v. 48-75; See also:Virgil, Aeneid, iii. 163 ff. ; articles in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie and See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie.

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