Dardanus

Role: recipient of Zeus's gift · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 19

After the capture of Ilium, Eurypylus acquired a chest containing a statue of Dionysus, described as “a gift of Zeus to Dardanus.” In Book 8, Chapter 24, Zacynthus is identified as the son of Dardanus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eurypylus acquired a chest containing a statue of Dionysus.(Book 7 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Ilium)
  • With: Eurypylus (son of Euæmon) Dionysus Zeus
  • “And after the capture of Ilium, when the Greeks shared the spoil, Eurypylus the son of Euæmon got a chest, in which there was a statue of Dionysus, the work some say of Hephæstus, and a gift of Zeus to Dardanus.”

Book 7 · Chapter 19

• with Zeus (The statue was described as a gift from Zeus to Dardanus.) “a statue of Dionysus, the work some say of Hephæstus, and a gift of Zeus to Dardanus.”
• with Dionysus (Dardanus received the statue of Dionysus.) “a statue of Dionysus, the work some say of Hephæstus, and a gift of Zeus to Dardanus”

Book 8 · Chapter 24

• child: Zacynthus “Zacynthus the son of Dardanus”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.