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 Bathea, the daughter of Teucer, and by her became the father of Erichthonius and Idas. According to a later tradition he was the son of Corythus an Etruscan prince, and emigrated from Etruria to Phrygia.

Dardanum, or Dardania, in Ancient Geography, a city of the Troad in Mysia, taking its name from Dardanus the founder of the dynasty of Troy. It was a small and unimportant town even during the authentic period of ancient history, and is chiefly memorable as the spot where Sulla and Mithridates met in B.C. 84, to arrange the terms of peace.