query: part_of erichthonius of dardania
supports: The Troad (or ) or Troas is the historical name of the Biga Peninsula (modern Turkish: "Biga Yarmadas") in the northwestern part of Anatolia, Turkey. This region now is part of the Çanakkale province of Turkey. Bounded by the Dardanelles to the northwest, by the Aegean Sea to the west and separated from the rest of Anatolia by the massif that forms Mount Ida, the Troad is drained by two main rivers, the Scamander (Karamenderes) and the Simois, which join at the area containing the ruins of Troy. In Greek mythology, Phineus was a king of Thrace and seer who appears in accounts of the Argonauts' voyage. Zeus ("Zeús", ; Modern , "Días" ) was the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical to those of the Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perun, Thor, and Odin. In Greek mythology, Argo (in Greek: , meaning 'swift') was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to Colchis to retrieve the Golden Fleece. She was named after her builder, Argus. The Argonauts ("Argonautai") were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War, around 1300 BC, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, "Argo", named after its builder, Argus. "Argonauts" literally means ""Argo" sailors". They were sometimes called Minyans, after a prehistoric tribe in the area. The mythical King Erichthonius / rkonis / of Dardania was the son of Dardanus , King of Dardania , and Batea , ( although some legends say his mother was Olizone , descendant of Phineus ) . He is said to have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous reign . Fundamentally , all that is known of this Erichthonius comes from Homer , who says ( Samuel Butler 's translation of Iliad 20.215 - 234 ) : `` In the beginning Dardanos was the son of Zeus , and founded Dardania , for Ilion was not yet established on the plain for men to dwell in , and her people still abode on the spurs of many - fountained Ida . Dardanos had a son , king Erichthonios , who was wealthiest of all men living ; he had three thousand mares that fed by the water - meadows , they and their foals with them . Boreas was enamored of them as they were feeding , and covered them in the semblance of a dark - maned stallion . Twelve filly foals did they conceive and bear him , and these , as they sped over the fertile plain , would go bounding on over the ripe ears of wheat and not break them ; or again when they would disport themselves on the broad back of Ocean they could gallop on the crest of a breaker . Erichthonios begat Tros , king of the Trojans , and Tros had three noble sons , Ilos , Assarakos , and Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men ; wherefore the gods carried him off to be Zeus ' cupbearer , for his beauty 's sake , that he might dwell among the immortals . '' John Tzetzes and one of the scholia to Lycophron call his wife Astyoche , daughter of Simoeis . The Bibliotheca also adds Erichthonius ' older brother Ilus , who died young and childless ; presumably a doublet of the other Ilus , grandson of Erichthonius , eponym of Troy . Strabo ( 13.1.48 ) records , but discounts , the claim by `` some more recent writers '' that Teucer came from the deme of Xypeteones in Attica , supposedly called Troes ( meaning Trojans ) in mythical times . These writers mentioned that Erichthonius appears as founder both in Attica and the Troad , and may be identifying the two . Erichthonius reigned for forty six or , according to others , sixty five years and was succeeded by his son Tros . In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida in Crete; and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey) which was also known as the "Phrygian Ida" in classical antiquity and is the mountain that is mentioned in the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to Cybele, who is sometimes called "Mater Idaea" ("Idaean Mother"), while Rhea, often identified with Cybele, put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete. Thereafter, his birthplace was sacred to Zeus, the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses. Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to and study the myths in an attempt to shed light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece and its civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself. In Greek mythology, Dardanus (Greek: ) was a son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardanus at the foot of Mount Ida in the Troad. Thrace (Modern , "Thráke" "Trakiya") is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe, centered on the modern borders of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey. In antiquity, it was also referred to as Europe, prior to the extension of the term to describe the whole continent. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east. The areas it comprises are southeastern Bulgaria (Northern Thrace), northeastern Greece (Western Thrace), and the European part of Turkey (Eastern Thrace). The biggest part of Thrace is part of present-day Bulgaria. In Turkey, it is also called Rumeli. The name comes from the Thracians, an ancient Indo-European people inhabiting Southeastern Europe.
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answer: greek mythology