Dardanus (son of Zeus)

After a great flood, Dardanus and his people settled in Samothrace before eventually moving to Asia Minor due to the land's poor quality.

In Virgil's Aeneid, Dardanus is said to have originally come from Italy, where his mother Electra was married to Corythus, the king of Tarquinia.

He also founded the city of Thymbra and expanded his kingdom by waging successful wars against his neighbors.

Dardanus has been the subject of various operas by composers such as Jean-Philippe Rameau, Carl Stamitz, and Antonio Sacchini.

Dardanus was a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra,[2] daughter of Atlas but one author claims that his real father was the Corythus, an Italian king.

This tradition holds that Dardanus was a Tyrrhenian prince, and that his mother Electra was married to Corythus, king of Tarquinia.

Dardanus waged war successfully against his neighbors, especially distinguishing himself against the Paphlagonians and thereby extending the boundaries of his kingdom with considerable acquisitions.

Idaeus gave his name to the Idaean mountains, that is Mount Ida, where he built a temple to the Mother of the Gods (Cybele) and instituted mysteries and ceremonies still observed in Phrygia in Dionysius's time.