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after him. The god of the Scamander met the goddess
Cybele on Mount Ida, and the hero was the result of this
divine intercourse. Cybele was also called Idæa be-
cause she often haunted the shaggy woods of that range.

It was in those days that Dardanus, pro-
bably a Pelasgian chieftain, came to the
land of the Teukrii, from the neighboring
isle of Samothrace. * He was the son of Zeus and Elec-
tra, a man of distinguished qualities who left Samothrace
because of the affliction he endured after Zeus had
stricken his brother Iasion by lightning. Dardanus in-
gratiated himself into the favor of Teukros, and received
from him his daughter Batieia in marriage,
together with a tract upon which he founded
a city called Dardania, high up on the crags
of Mount Ida. To him were born two sons, Ilus and
Erichthonius. The latter accumulated great wealth and
succeeded to the throne. In his pastures were three
thousand mares; their colts, sired by Boreas, were super-
naturally swift.

Dardanus set-
tles in the
Troad.

The Darda-
nian dynasty.

By Astyoche, daughter of the Simois, came to Erich-
thonius a son named Tros, who inherited the sceptre.
In him were combined the rival families of the Scaman-
der and the Simois. Tros in turn had three sons by
Callirhoë. The noble house of Æneas sprang from
Assaracus, while the great king Priam was descended
from Ilus, the eldest son. Ganymede, the youngest, was
made cup-bearer to Zeus. Tros gave his name to the
territory over which he reigned, and Ilus founded the
famous and holy city of Ilion, more properly and gener-
ally known by the name of Troy.

The Mysian or Dardanian line seems up to this time
to have been in some degree dependent for its authority

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* Strabo, Apollodorus, etc.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Troy: Its Legend, History and Literature. Contributors: S. G. W. Benjamin - author. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1880. Page Number: 2.
    
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