Ancient Greek mythological figure
In Greek mythology , Agenor (; Ancient Greek : Ἀγήνωρ or Αγήνορι Agēnor ; English translation: 'heroic, manly')[ 1] Psophian prince.
Family
Agenor was the son of Phegeus , king of Psophis , in Arcadia .[ 2] Pronous and Arsinoe , who was married to, and later abandoned by, the Argive Alcmaeon .
Mythology
When Alcmaeon wanted to give the celebrated necklace and peplos of Harmonia —which had formerly belonged to Arsinoe—to his second wife Calirrhoe , the daughter of Achelous , he was slain by Agenor and Pronous at the instigation of Phegeus. But when the two brothers came to Delphi , where they intended to dedicate the necklace and peplos, they themselves were killed by Amphoterus and Acarnan , the sons of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe.[ 3]
Pausanias , who relates the same story, writes that the children of Phegeus were named Temenus , Axion , and Alphesiboea .[ 4]
Notes
^ ἀγήνωρ Liddell, Henry George ; Scott, Robert ; A Greek–English Lexicon Perseus Project ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agenor (5)" , in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Little, Brown and Company , p. 68, archived from the original on 2013-10-12, retrieved 2008-05-17 ^ Apollodorus , 3.7.5^ Pausanias , 8.24.10
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 .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 . public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Agenor (5)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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