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It is a city on the Hellespont, on the foot of the Mt. Ida.
Also Dardanum (Dardanon), a Greek city in the Troad on the Hellespont,
twelve Roman miles from Ilium, built by Aeolian colonists, at some distance from
the site of the ancient city Dardania. From Dardanum arose the name of the Castles
of the Dardanelles, after which the Hellespont is now called.
Dardanus, Dardanum (he Dardanos, to Dardanon: Eth. Dardaneus), a city
of the Troad, originally named Teucris. According to the legend told by Mnaseas
(Steph. B. s. v. Dardanos), Dardanus built or settled Dardanus, and named the
country Dardania, which was called Teucris before. This old story of Dardanus
being the founder of the city, is reported by various other authorities. (Apollod.
iii. 12. § 1; Diod. iv. 75; Conon. apud Phot. Narr. 21.) It seems that the city
was sometimes called Dardania as well as the country. Pliny (v. 30) names it Dardanium.
It was situated on the Hellespont, about a mile south of the promontory Dardanis
or Dardanium (Map of the Plain of Troy, by Capt. Graves and T. A. B. Spratt, Esq.,
London Geog. Journal, vol. xii.), and 70 stadia from Abydus. Between Abydus and
Dardanus, says Strabo, is the Rhodius. There are two streams marked in the map:
one nearer Dardanus, which enters the Hellespont close to the promontory of Dardanis;
and another near Sultania, a little north of which is the site of Abydus. Dr.
Forchhammer, in the map referred to, which contains his determination of the ancient
sites, makes the stream at Sultania to be the ancient Rhodius; and this appears
to be right, according to Strabo, who says that it enters the sea opposite to
Cynossema in the Chersonesus. Strabo adds, however, some say that the Rhodius
flows into the Aesepus; but of course the Rhodius must then be a different river
from the stream that enters the sea between Abydus and Dardanus. Homer mentions
the Rhodius (Il. xii. 20).
Strabo observes that the Dardanus of his time, the town on the coast,
was not the old town of Dardanus, or Dardania, which appears from the Iliad to
have been at the foot of Ida. It was an older town than Ilium, and did not exist
in Strabo's time. The later town was an Aeolian settlement, and it is mentioned
among the towns on the Hellespont, which Daurises the Persian took after the burning
of Sardis. (Herod. v. 117.) In another place (vi. 43), Herodotus observes that
Dardanus bordered on the territory of Abydus; which might also be safely inferred
from the passage in the fifth book. It is mentioned by Scylax in his Periplus
of the Troad. In the battle between the Athenians and Peloponnesians in the twenty-first
year of the Peloponnesian War (B.C. 411), the line of the 68 ships of the Peloponnesians
extended from Abydus to Dardanus (Thuc. viii. 104); a statement that can hardly
be correct, for the ships that were outside of the promontory of Dardanis would
be completely separated from the rest. Strabo says that Dardanus was so weak a
place, that the kings, by whom he means Alexander's successors, some of them several
times removed all the people to Abydus, and others moved them back again to their
old place. On this spot L. Cornelius Sulla and Mithridates met, after Sulla had
crossed over from Europe, and here they came to terms about putting an end to
the war, B.C. 84. (Strab. p. 595; Plut. Sulla, c. 24.) It was at that time a free
city, having been declared such by the Romans after the peace with king Antiochus,
B.C. 190, in honour of the Trojan descent of the people. (Liv. xxxvii. 9, 37,
xxxviii. 39.)
There are many imperial coins of Dardanus; and the name of the river
Rhodius appears on a medal of Domna. Sestini, Mon. Vet. p. 76. (Cramer, Asia Minor,
vol. i. p. 82.) This seems to show that the stream which flows into the Hellespont
near the cape Dardanis, is the Rhodius, and not the river nearer Abydus; but it
is not decisive. The modern name Dardanelles is generally supposed to be derived
from the name of Dardanus.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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