Zeus, the cloud-gatherer, begat Dardanus, and he founded Dardania
-> Homer's Iliad, 20.215
Next he sang of Jupiter — his sweet and secret dalliance, and his union with Electra, daughter of Atlas; how their son was Dardanus, worthy of his divine parents; and how Dardanus gave the Thunderer a grandson, Erichthonius of high descent
-> Silius Italicus' Punica, 11.286
Dardanos who once, during the flood, [...] came to Ilion [...] when Zeus flooded the earth during the time of Deucalion
-> Tzetzes' Ad Lycophronem, 72
Building a raft and wrapping himself in a leather sack, he crossed to Mount Ida in the Troad. He got off the raft and on Zeus’ orders built a city
-> D Scholia to the Iliad
One Palladium was given by Zeus to Dardanus and that this remained in Ilium, hidden in the sanctuary, till the city was being taken
-> Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Roman Antiquities, 1.69.3
That huge golden cup, a gift of Gods; for this the cunning God-smith brought to Zeus, his masterpiece, [...] and Zeus on Dardanus his godlike son bestowed it
-> Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, 2.137
When Troy was captured, and the Greeks divided the spoils, Eurypylus the son of Euaemon got a chest. In it was an image of Dionysus, the work, so they say, of Hephaestus, and given as a gift by Zeus to Dardanus
-> Pausanias' Descriptions of Greece, 7.19.6
The race of Dardanus perish not without seed and be seen no more—of Dardanus whom the son of Cronos loved above all the children born to him from mortal women
-> Homer's Iliad, 20.300
