Batea of Troad

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Batea
Teucrian princess
Other names
Arisbe
AbodeTeucria (Troad)
Personal information
ParentsTeucer or Tros
Siblings-
ConsortDardanus
ChildrenErichthonius, Ilus, Zacynthus, and (possibly) Idaea

In

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).

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. ^ a b Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dardanus
  2. Idaea
  3. ^ a b c Apollodorus, 3.12.1
  4. ^ Conon, Narrations 21
  5. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.50.3
  6. Tzetzes
    on Lycophron, 1298
  7. ^ Homer, Iliad 2.813; the hill was known as the tomb of Batea to the mortals, but as that of Myrina to the immortals
  8. ^ Arrian in Eustathius on Homer, 351

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