DARDANUS, the mythical ancestor of the Trojans, was the son of Jupiter and Electra. According to the Greek legend, he came from Arcadia to Samothrace, and thence removed to Phrygia, where he established the famous palladium, originally the dowry of his wife Chryse, which was afterwards enshrined at Troy. Dardanus afterwards married Bateia, the daughter of Teucrus, and by her became the father of Ericthonius and Idaea. According to a later tradition he was the son of Corythus an Etruscan prince, and emigrated from Etruria to Phrygia.