Batea of Troad
In Greek mythology, the name Batea or Bateia (/bəˈtiːə/ 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.
| Batea | |
|---|---|
Teucrian princess | |
| Other names | Arisbe |
| Abode | Teucria (Troad) |
| Personal information | |
| Parents | Teucer or Tros |
| Siblings | - |
| Consort | Dardanus |
| Children | Erichthonius, Ilus, Zacynthus, and (possibly) Idaea |
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. 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
- 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
- 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.