Dardanus
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Williams’s “Dardanus Suite,” a premiere, was developed in preparation for the director Michel Fau’s production of Rameau’s lyric tragedy “Dardanus.”
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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.
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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.
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From one of them, Dardanus, descended in the fifth generation Priamus of Troy.
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That is our true home: thence sprung Dardanus and father Iasius, the first founder of our line.
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