Dardanus

Another, Electra, was the mother of Dardanus, the founder of the Trojan race.

Mr. Williams’s “Dardanus Suite,” a premiere, was developed in preparation for the director Michel Fau’s production of Rameau’s lyric tragedy “Dardanus.”

On another occasion, Boreas, having changed himself into a horse and united himself to the mares of Dardanus, King of Troy, became the father of twelve steeds so swift that none could overtake them.

DARDANUS, in Greek legend, son of Zeus and Electra, the mythical founder of Dardanus on the Hellespont and ancestor of the Dardans of the Troad and, through Aeneas, of the Romans.

From one of them, Dardanus, descended in the fifth generation Priamus of Troy.