Dardanus: multiple --
- Dardanus (son of Zeus), the son of Zeus and Electra, and ancestor of the Trojans
- Dardanus (Scythian king), a Scythian king, and the father of Idaea who was the wife of King
- Phineus Dardanus (son of Illyrius) (sh), mythical ancestor of Dardani
- Dardanus, the Trojan son of Bias, killed by Achilles
- interesting: a flood mythology
- other accounts make no mention of Arcadia or Hesperia, though they sometimes mention a flood and speak of Dardanus sailing on a hide-raft (as part of the flood story?) from Samothrace to the Troad near Abydos.
- all accounts agree that Dardanus came to the Troad from Samothrace and was there welcomed by King Teucer and that Dardanus married Batea the daughter of Teucer. (Dionysius mentions that Dardanus' first wife Chryse had died.)
- Dardanus received land on Mount Ida from his father-in-law. There Dardanus founded the city of Dardanus which became the capital of his kingdom. He later founded the city of Thymbra in honor of his friend Thymbraeus, who is said to have been killed by Dardanus.
- Dardanus waged war successfully against his neighbors, especially distinguishing himself against the Paphlagonians and thereby extending the boundaries of his kingdom with considerable acquisitions.
- birthplace / death: Egypt; 1400 BC (15th century) in the Troad
- "New Town" in the Phoenician / Carthaginian language
- founded 500 years after Troy fell (so about 800 BC or about the time Homer was living)
- settled by colonists from Phoenicia (modern Lebanon)
- Phoenician chief cities: Tyre (hence, "Tyrians") and Sidon
- annihilated by Rome in 146 BC (about 70 years before Virgil born)
- Rome immediately proposed a new site in honor of Juno but did not actually colonize until 44 BC, under Julius Caesar; at that time, Virgil, middle-age
Divine War
- Trojan War, judgement of Paris; Eris (strife as a divine force) -- Minerva (Palls Athena, "wisdom"; Juno (Hera, "power"); Venus (Aphrodite, "love"); Priam chose Venus (Aphrodite, "love") when the chose Helen, most beautiful women; Juno (Hera) favored Trojans, Aeneas;
- Aeneid: a continuation of the Divine War -- the continuation of the rivalry between Juno and Venus
- left on the sideline: Minerva (Pallas Athena, "wisdom")
- Minerva (Pallas Athena, "wisdom") is also overlooked in the art and cult of Augustan Rome
- lurks in the background through the Aeneid
- Aeneas' greatest Greek adversary
- Aeneas is saved from him in Iliad 5
- long note, line 1.148; page 330
- Octavian: pietas; associated with Neptune
- Neptune not his favorite god, but Neptune was patron deity of Octavian's foremost foe, Sextus Pompey, the younger son of Caesar's rival, Pompey
- Octavian suffered heavy naval losses to Sextus Pompey
- solar system gods: Apollo (sun); Diana (moon); Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn
- Juno: not a planet; associated with air; Greek anagram of aer
- Neptune not known in anitquity
- note at bottom of page 331, 1.279
- after death, Romulus identified as a god, Quirinus
- Latin fatum means "destiny" which is not quite "fate"
- Virgil follows the practice of most Greek and Roman poets in placing female characters at the heartof his work
- not only was Carthage ruled by a women, but the chief gods of the Aeneid are female
- the most memorable seer and the demons of the underworld are also female
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