Agenor
mythological figure · 4 works · 12 mentions · 17 anchored passages
he · noble Agenor · son to Antenor · the foremost authority of living men
in the texts
Iliad
Trojan warrior who kills Elephenor as he stoops to strip Ekhepolos's body.
Agenor saw him haling the body away, and smote him in the side with his bronze-shod spear - for as he stooped his side was left unprotected by his shield - and thus he perished.
The Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain, were gathered round great Hektor, noble Polydamas, Aeneas who was honored in the district [ dêmos] of the Trojans like an immortal, and the three sons of Antenor - Polybos, Agenor, and young Akamas, beauteous as a god.
The next company was led by Paris, Alkathoos, and Agenor;
Orations
Trojan warrior who evades Achilles' pursuit.
but when he perceived him now wearied and much abated of his former impulse, since he had not husbanded himself in the contest, and worn out by the river that had flowed greater, crossing it inexpertly, and saw him wounded by Asteropaeus the Paeonian, and Aeneas standing against him and fighting at length and, when he wished, withdrawing safely, and Achilles starting to pursue Agenor but not catch …
To the Rulers of the Mytilenaeans
A distinguished musical authority and exile from Mytilene, for whose return Isocrates intercedes.
One thing more—if it should seem best to you to grant any of these requests, let Agenor and his brothers understand that it is owing in some measure to me that they are obtaining what they desire.
The sons of Aphareus, my grandsons, who were instructed in music by Agenor, have asked me to write to you and beg that, since you have restored some of the other exiles, you will also allow Agenor, his father, and his brothers to return home.
for it is disgraceful that while your city is universally acknowledged to be most devoted to music and the most notable artists in that field have been born among you, yet he who is the foremost authority of living men in that branch of culture is an exile from such a city;
Oedipus Tyrannus
An old ancestral figure invoked in the lineage for whose honor Oedipus pursues the killer.
But now, since I hold the powers which he once held, possessing his bed and the wife who bore his children, and since, had his hope of offspring not been unsuccessful, children born of one mother would have tied us with a common bond—as it was, fate swooped upon his head—I will uphold this cause, as though it were that of my own father, and will leave no stone unturned in my search for the one who …