Agapenor
Ancient Greek mythological figure from the Iliad
In Greek mythology , Agapenor (Ancient Greek : Ἀγαπήνωρ , gen. Ἀγαπήνορος means 'much distress'[ 1] ) was a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan War .[ 2]
Family
Agapenor was a son of Ancaeus [ 3] and grandson of Lycurgus .
Mythology
As king of the Arcadians , Agapenor received sixty ships from Agamemnon , in which he led his Arcadians to Troy .[ 4] He also occurs among the suitors of Helen [ 5] and one of the men to be in the Trojan Horse .[ 6]
On Agapenor's return from Troy he was cast by a storm on the coast of Cyprus , where he founded the town of Paphos and in it the famous temple of Aphrodite .[ 7]
Agapenor also occurs in the story of Alcmaeon : it was to him that Arsinoe (or Alphesiboea ), Alcmaeon's wife was sold away by her own brothers.[ 8]
Agapenor had a descendant Laodice , who was known for having sent to Tegea a robe (peplos) as a gift to Athena Alea ,[ 9] and to have built a temple of Aphrodite Paphia in Tegea.[ 10]
Notes
^ Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition . Penguin Books Limited. pp. Index s.v. Agapenor. ISBN 9780241983386 .
^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agapenor" , in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 1, Boston, p. 59, archived from the original on 2010-06-16, retrieved 2007-12-28 {{citation }}
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^ Apollodorus , 3.10.8 ; Pausanias , 8.5.2
^ Homer , Iliad 2.609; Hyginus , Fabulae 97
^ Apollodorus, 3.10.8 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 81
^ Homer, The Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore, 1951
^ Pausanias, 8.5.2
^ Apollodorus, 3.7.5
^ Pausanias, 8.5.3
^ Pausanias, 8.53.7
References
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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4 . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .
Graves, Robert , The Greek Myths , Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960. ISBN 978-0143106715
Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017. ISBN 978-0-241-98338-6 , 024198338X
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 .
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.
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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4 . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Agapenor". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .