In Greek mythology, the name Batea or Bateia ( ; ) was the daughter or (less commonly) the aunt of King Teucer.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. DardanusTzetzes ad Lycophron, 29, where she is called sister of Scamander, who was the father of Teucer by Idaea She was the mother of Ilus, Erichthonius, and 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).Apollodorus, 3.12.1Conon, Narrations 21 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. By Dardanus, Batea was the mother of Ilus, Erichthonius, and Zacynthus.Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.50.3
In some accounts, Arisbe of Crete, a daughter of Teucer, is mentioned as the wife of Dardanus.Lycophron, 1308; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1298 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.
Batea gave her name to a hill in the Troad, mentioned in the Iliad,Homer, Iliad 2.813; the hill was known as the tomb of Batea to the mortals, but as that of Myrina to the immortals as well as to the town of Bateia.Arrian in Eustathius on Homer, 351
She is sometimes equated with the Amazon queen Myrina.
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