Batea (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, the name Batea (or Bateia) refers to the following individuals:
- The daughter or (less commonly) the aunt of King Teucer.[1][2] Her 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), and the term is sometimes used as another name for the Trojans[citation needed]. Batea married King Dardanus, son of Zeus and Electra, whom Teucer named as his heir.[3] Batea gave her name to a hill in the Troad, mentioned in the Iliad,[5] as well as to the town of Bateia.[6] By Dardanus, Batea was the mother of Ilus, Erichthonius, Zacynthus, and Idaea (future wife of Phineus).[3][7][8] Greek mythology also recounts Arisbe of Crete, a daughter of Teucer, as the wife of Dardanus,[9] so Arisbe and Batea are usually assumed to be the same person.[citation needed]
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- ^ 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[[{{subst:DATE}}|{{subst:DATE}}]] [disambiguation needed]
- ^ a b c Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 12. 1
- ^ Conon, Narrations, 21
- ^ 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
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1. 50. 3
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 43
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1298
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 10. 4
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