Agenor, son of Pleuron

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Agenor (Gr. Ἀγήνωρ) was a son of Pleuron and Xanthippe, and grand­son of Aetolus.[1] Epicaste, the daughter of Calydon, became by him the mother of Porthaon and Demonice.[2] According to Pausanias, Thestius, the father of Leda, is likewise a son of this Agenor.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Agenor (4)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 68 
  2. ^ Apollodorus, i. 7. § 7
  3. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 13. § 5

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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