Dardanus

Family: Trojans · Role: father of Anchises · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100

Zeus gave Dardanus a Palladium, which remained in Ilium until the city was taken. The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae names Dardanus as the child of Zeus and Electra. In the Homeric Hymn V, Anchises is addressed as “son of Dardanus!”

Relationship record

Life events

• Zeus gave Dardanus a Palladium, which remained in Ilium until the city was taken.(The Sack of Ilium · 📍 Ilium)
  • With: Zeus
  • “According to Arctinus, one Palladium was given to Dardanus by Zeus, and this was in Ilium until the city was taken.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100

• parent: Zeus “....Electra.... was subject to the dark-clouded Son of Cronos and bare Dardanus....”
• parent: Electra “Electra.... was subject to the dark-clouded Son of Cronos and bare Dardanus....”

Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2

• child: Anchises “‘Up, son of Dardanus!—why sleep you so heavily?—and consider whether I look as I did when first you saw me with your eyes.’”

The Sack of Ilium

• parent: Zeus “According to Arctinus, one Palladium was given to Dardanus by Zeus, and this was in Ilium until the city was taken.”

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