Agenor (mythology)
Agenor (/əˈdʒiːnɔːr/; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήνωρ 'heroic, manly')[1] was the name of the following Greek mythological characters:
- Agenor, son of Poseidon and king of Tyre.[2]
- Agenor of Argos, son of either Ecbasus, Triopas, or Phoroneus.[3]
- Agenor, one of the Sons of Aegyptus. He married the Danaid Cleopatra[4] or Evippe[5] and thus was killed along with his brothers, except Lynceus, by their wives during their wedding night at the behest of Danaus.
- Agenor, the betrothed of Andromeda,otherwise called Phineus.[6]
- Agenor (son of Pleuron), and grandson of Aetolus.[7]
- Agenor, one of the Niobids.[8]
- Agenor, a warrior in the army of the Seven Against Thebes. For trying to rescue Tages, his brother, who had been wounded in battle by Hypseus in the river, Agenor eventually was drowned.[9]
- Agenor, son of Phegeus, murderer of Alcmaeon.[10]
- Agenor, son of Antenor, a character in Homer's Iliad.[11]
- Agenor, one of the suitors of Penelope from Dulichium.[12]
- Agenor, another suitors of Penelope from Zacynthos[12]
- Agenor, son Areus, son of Ampyx. He was the ancestor of Patreus, the founder of Patrae through his son Preugenes, who was the father of Patreus.[13]
References
- ↑ ἀγήνωρ. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Agenor (1)". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 68.
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. § 2
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.1.5
- ↑ Hyginus. Fabulae 170
- ↑ Hyginus. Fabulae 54
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 1.7.7
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 3.5.6
- ↑ Statius. Thebaid, Book 9.272
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agenor (5)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 68
- ↑ Homer, Iliad xi. 59, vi. 297
- 1 2 Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Epitome 7.26.ff. & 7.33
- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Greece, 7.18.5.
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