Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Dardanus.
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Aeneid
Virgil
Virgil makes Dardanus the ancestral founder behind Troy and Aeneas — the Samothracian-born son of Zeus and Electra whose line becomes Rome's claim on Ilium.
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Dardanus
Son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, founder of Dardania — the eponym whose name still marks the Dardanelles and the Trojan royal stem.