Batea of Troad
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Batea | |
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Teucrian princess
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Other names | Arisbe |
Abode | Teucria ( Troad ) |
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Parents | Teucer or Tros |
Siblings | - |
Consort | Dardanus |
Children | Erichthonius , Ilus , Zacynthus , and (possibly) Idaea |
In Greek mythology , the name Batea or Bateia ( / b ə ˈ t iː ə / bə- TEE -ə ; Ancient Greek : Βάτεια ) was the daughter or (less commonly) the aunt of King Teucer . [1] [2] She was the mother of Ilus , Erichthonius , and Zacynthus . A hill in the Troad and the town Bateia were named after her.
Mythology
Batia's father was the ruler of a tribe known as the Teucrians (Teucri). [3] [4] The Teucrians inhabited the area of northwest Asia Minor later called the Troad (Troas). She married King Dardanus , son of Zeus and Electra , whom Teucer named as his heir. [3] By Dardanus, Batea was the mother of Ilus , Erichthonius , and Zacynthus . [3] [5]
In some accounts, Arisbe of Crete , a daughter of Teucer, is mentioned as the wife of Dardanus. [6] Arisbe and Batea are usually assumed to be the same person. [ citation needed ] According to another version of the myth, Batia was the daughter of Tros , instead of Teucer. [1]
Batea gave her name to a hill in the Troad , mentioned in the Iliad , [7] as well as to the town of Bateia. [8]
Trojan family tree
Notes
- 1 2 Stephanus of Byzantium , s.v. Dardanus
- ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron , 29, where she is called sister of Scamander , who was the father of Teucer by Idaea
- 1 2 3 Apollodorus , 3.12.1
- ↑ Conon , Narrations 21
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Antiquitates Romanae 1.50.3
- ↑ Lycophron, 1308; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1298
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 2.813; the hill was known as the tomb of Batea to the mortals, but as that of Myrina to the immortals
- ↑ Arrian in Eustathius on Homer, 351
References
- Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4 . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .
- Conon , Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Dionysus of Halicarnassus , Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt , Vol I-IV . . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
- Homer , The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
- Lycophron , The Alexandra translated by Alexander William Mair. Loeb Classical Library Volume 129. London: William Heinemann, 1921. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Lycophron, Alexandra translated by A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium , Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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