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 suitor of Penelope from Zacynthos.[13]
• Agenor, son Areus, son of Ampyx. He was the father of Preugenes and paternal grandfather of Patreus, the founder of Patrae.[14]
• Agenor, husband of Dioxippe and father of Sipylus, who unwittingly killed his mother.[15]

Notes

1. ἀγήνωρ. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
2. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Agenor (1)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 68.
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.2
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
5. Hyginus, Fabulae 170
6. Hyginus, Fabulae 64
7. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.7
8. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.6
9. Statius, Thebaid 9.272
10. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agenor (5)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 68
11. Homer, Iliad 11.59 & 6.297
12. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 7.27
13. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29
14. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 7.18.5
15. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 9.4

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• 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.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Morals translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.