Antenor
mythological figure · 7 works · 18 mentions · 23 anchored passages
the father · the horseman Antenor · the wise hero · wise Antenor
in the texts
Iliad
Trojan elder and counselor who hosted Odysseus and Menelaos on a past embassy and accompanies Priam to the oath ceremony.
The two sages, Ucalegon and Antenor, elders of the people, were seated by the Scaean gates, with Priam, Panthoos, Thymoetes, Lampos, Klytios, and Hiketaon of the race of Ares.
He mounted the chariot, gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor took his seat beside him;
He gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor sat beside him;
Dithyrambs
Trojan elder, husband of Theano, who conveys the Greek envoys' message to Priam.
led and their father, the wise hero, made the whole speech of the Achaeans known to king Priam and his sons.
The [wife] of godlike [Antenor], priestess of Athena of battle-rousing Pallas golden of the Argives, to Odysseus [son of Laertes] and Menelaus, the royal son of Atreus, [deep]-waisted Theano spoke well-built with the gods heart [at midnight]
Orations
Trojan elder who leads a colonizing expedition to the Adriatic region.
And Antenor, seeing Aeneas sent out, himself too desired to rule over Europe, and another such fleet was made.
For Aeneas, sent by Hector with a fleet and much force, possessed Italy, the most prosperous country of Europe;
and Antenor mastered the Eneti and the best land about the Adriatic;
Symposium
Trojan elder cited as a type comparable to Pericles.
you may couple Nestor, Antenor, or others I might mention, with Pericles;
Numa
Figure to whom Epicharmus dedicated the treatise cited as proof of Pythagoras's Roman citizenship.
This fact is recorded by Epicharmus the comic poet, in a certain treatise which he dedicated to Antenor;
Consolation to Helvia
Legendary Trojan founder of Patavium (Padua), cited as an example of exile leading to founding a city.
What use is it to recount Antenor, the founder of Patavium, and Evander setting the kingdoms of the Arcadians on the bank of the Tiber?
Aeneid
Trojan who escaped Troy's fall to found Patavium in Illyria.
Antenor, though th' Achaeans pressed him sore, found his way forth, and entered unassailed
He built Patavium there, and fixed abodes for Troy 's far-exiled sons;
Illyria 's haven, and the guarded land of the Liburni.