Tro-Jan War Diaspora

Tro-Jan War Diaspora 

Dardanus, whence the name of the Trojans as "Dardans" comes from Hesperia (Hesprii) which is the West Coast of Africa once called the Hesprii Aethiopes Coast of the actual real ancient Underworld.

(Aeneid 3.163 and 7.273 and 8.180 )  

 

 

 

 

Dardaneas 

DarDan 

Dhar Dan 

Lost Hebrew Tribe of Dhar Dan Mauritania!  

Trojan side

Aeneas:
Short catalog of his men as founders of Roman lineages at funeral games in honor of Anchises at Acestes' place on Sicily
Mnestheus founder of Memmius clan
Sergestus founder of Sergian house
Cloanthus founder of Cluentius family
...5.735
Atys founder of Atii family
Iulus, of course, founder of Julii family

5.985: Aeneas set up a town near Acestes' town in Sicily. He left behind those of his people who were too exhausted or old or young to make the trip to Italy, and he set up a shrine on the mountain.

Antenor, founder of Padua: Aeneid I.241ff
Acestes in Sicily: went there from Troy long before the Trojan war, back when Poseidon and Apollo built the walls of Troy. Aeneid I.550; 5.42

Helenus and Andromache rule in Chaonia Aeneid 3. 398: 480 has "Troy in miniature" view
not really diaspora, but book 7 opens with Caieta, Aeneas' wetnurse, who was buried/burned at the bay of Gaeta and gave her name to it.

Auson, son of Calypso and Odysseus: "Ausonia," aka "the land of Auson," is frequently referred to in the prophecies of where Aeneas is supposed to go and found Rome
Ausonia is an ancient Greek name for lower Italy
the Ausones (descendants of Auson)were people in the region of Latium, where Aeneas eventually ends up settling in Italy

Transfer of remains: look for article sent to class via email.
look on Amanda's presentation for xfer of bones TO Troy

Eryx of Sicily is called Aeneas 'brother' at 5.31, because Eryx was also supposedly Venus' son (with Butes as father), but also the local Sicilian tribe of the Elymi is referred to by ancient writers Thucydides and Strabo as somehow of Trojan descent. Clearly predates the Trojan War.

Greek Side

Idomeneus of Crete was driven out of Crete while away at Troy (he fought on the Greek side) and settled on the Sallentine Plain, the "heel" of Italy's boot. Aeneid 3.542
Philoctetes in Petelia: fragment of Cato, around 216BCE also reports this, says Servius. see Aeneid 3.543

7.1000: Halaesus, Agamemnon's son, is among Turnus' allies from Italy.

7.514: Turnus is said to be descended from Inachus and Acrisius, of Argos in Mycenae!
Evander, Aeneas' ally and Pallas' father, came from Arcadia on the Peloponnese in Greece, before the Trojan war. He is supposed to be the one who brought the alphabet, as well as Greek gods and laws, to Italy: he is featured in Aeneid 8.212ff a bit, where Evander tells Aeneas that Priam had visited Arcadia in Evander's youth. Their families shared guest friendship.
Outside of Aeneid: 

 

Trojan Side

Brutus aka Brute, of Troy: descendant of Aeneas, reputedly, but also of Biblical characters!
Invented in middle ages.

Genealogy as imaginative rooting of a nation into the past
obvious tie-in to Rome via Aeneas, but also O.T.

Tenea, a settlement on the Peloponnese, was purportedly founded by Trojan captives brought back from Troy by Agamemnon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46205607

Greek Side

Dionysus of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities 1.72 reports that Xenagoras says that Circe and Odysseus have three sons

Romus/Rhomos/Romos (all these spellings exist) founded Rome
the same passage in Dionysus says that other versions report that "this man was the son of Ascanius, and according to others the son of Emathion. There are others who declare that Rome was built by Romus, the son of I talus and Leucaria, the daughter of Latinus."

Anteias/Antias founded Antium
Ardeias/Ardias founded Ardea (Ardea is mentioned in Aeneid, but not the founding hero Ardeias)
There are also several instances of bones of heroes from the Trojan War being brought here or there for cult purposes: that is a sort of diaspora as well. 

 

Source: ""Classics 1640 The Trojan War https://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/CLAS24TrojanWar/""

 

 

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