Agapenor
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Agapēnor, in Greek myth, leader of the Arcadian contingent against Troy in the Trojan War. On the way back he arrived at Cyprus where he founded the city of Paphos.
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Agapenor
Agapenor (Greek: Ἀγαπήνωρ; gen.: Ἀγαπήνορος) was in Greek mythology a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan war.[1] He was a son of Ancaeus, and grandson of Lycurgus. As king of the Arcadians he received sixty ships from Agamemnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy.[2][3] He also occurs among the suitors of Helen.[4][5] He was one of the men to be in the Trojan Horse.[6]
On his 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] He also occurs in the story of Alcmaeon: it was to him that Arsinoe (Alphesiboea), Alcmaeon's wife was sold away by her own brothers.[8]
Agapenor had a daughter Laodice, who was known for having sent to Tegea a robe as a gift to Athena Alea,[9] and to have built a temple of Aphrodite Paphia in Tegea.[10]
References
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agapenor", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, pp. 59, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0068.html
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2. 609, &e.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 81
- ^ Bibliotheca 3. 10. § 8
- ^ Homer, The Iliad, translated by Richmond Lattimore, 1951
- ^ Pausanias, 8. 5. § 2, &c.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 7. § 5, &c.
- ^ Pausanias, 8. 5. 3
- ^ Pausanias, 8. 53. 7
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1867). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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