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.[citation needed] 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]
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.
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.