Dardanus
mythological figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Lucullus
A leader of the Stoics at Athens in Antiochus's time, whom Antiochus did not join.
Why was he discontented with Mnesarchus, why with Dardanus, who were then the leaders of the Stoics at Athens?
Protrepticus
Legendary figure credited with introducing the mysteries of the Mother of the gods.
May he perish, then, who began this deception among men — whether it was Dardanus, who introduced the mysteries of the Mother of the gods, or Eetion, who founded the orgies and rites of the Samothracians, or that Phrygian Midas, who, having learned them from the Odrysian, then passed on the artful deception to his subjects.
Stromata
Dardanus, son of Zeus according to Homer, legendary founder of Dardania.
Under Sthenelus were both the kingdom of Amphictyon and the coming of Danaus to the Peloponnese, and the founding of Dardania by Dardanus, whom "first," says Homer, "the cloud-gatherer Zeus begot," and the carrying back of Europa from Phoenicia to Crete.
Orations
Mythical ancestor and ruler of the Phrygians/Trojans
but the very rulers of men, men engaged in public life and farming, as it may happen, and simply living — as Cyrus ruled the Persians, and Deioces the Medes, and Hellen those named after him, and Aeolus the Aeolians, and Dorus the Dorians, and Numa the Romans, and Dardanus the Phrygians.
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
Dardanus is the ancestral figure through whom Aphrodite identifies Anchises.
But at the time when the herdsmen drive their oxen and hardy sheep back to the fold from the flowery pastures, even then Aphrodite poured soft sleep upon Anchises, but herself put on her rich raiment.
De Anima
Figure named among the legendary sources of magical doctrine.
Either it is best to be detained here, according to the ‘aori,’ or worst, according to the ‘biaeothanatoi’ — that I may use the very words by which magic, the authoress of these opinions, sounds: