Agapenor
Agapenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαπήνωρ, gen. Ἀγαπήνορος) was 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, p. 59
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 2. 609, &c.
- ↑ 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. (1870). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.