Agenor

Family: Argive · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Agenor)

Agenor is an Argive king. The accounts variously name him as the son of Pleuron, Ecbasus, or Niobe and Amphion, and as the twin son of Libya and Poseidon, with Belus as his sibling. He is also named among the sons of Phegeus, alongside Pronous; another account records him among the sons of Niobe, whose children included Sipylus, Eupinytus, Ismenus, Damasichthon, Phaedimus, and Tantalus.

Agenor is associated with several marriages and children. He married Epicaste and begat Porthaon and Demonice; he is also recorded as the father of Argus and as having married Cleopatra. In Phoenicia, he married Telephassa and had Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix—“Agenor went to Phoenicia , married Telephassa, and begat a daughter Europa and three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”

At Psophis, the account of the vengeance of Amphoterus and Acarnan lists Agenor with Pronous and Phegeus; the sons of Alcmaeon killed Phegeus and his wife after killing his sons. Agenor is also named among the suitors of Penelope, one of fifty-seven men who came from Dulichium.

Relationship record

Life events

Alcmaeon's sons avenge him by killing Phegeus and his wife, after killing Phegeus's sons.(Apollodorus, Library 3.7 · 📍 Psophis)
- With: Amphoterus Acarnan Pronous Phegeus
- “the sons of Alcmaeon killed their father's murderers, and going to Psophis and entering the palace they slew both Phegeus and his wife.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

parent: Pleuron “Agenor, son of Pleuron”
married with Epicaste “And Agenor, son of Pleuron , married Epicaste, daughter of Calydon”
child: Porthaon “and begat Porthaon and Demonice”
child: Demonice “and begat Porthaon and Demonice”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

parent: Ecbasus “Ecbasus had a son Agenor”
child: Argus “Agenor had a son Argus, the one who is called the All-seeing.”
parent: Libya “Libya had by Poseidon twin sons, Agenor and Belus.”
parent: Poseidon “Libya had by Poseidon twin sons, Agenor and Belus.”
married with Cleopatra “Agenor got Cleopatra”

Apollodorus, Library 3.1

siblings with Belus “For as I have said, Libya had by Poseidon two sons, Belus and Agenor.”
married with Telephassa “Agenor went to Phoenicia , married Telephassa, and begat a daughter Europa and three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”
child: Europa “Agenor went to Phoenicia , married Telephassa, and begat a daughter Europa and three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”
child: Cadmus “Agenor went to Phoenicia , married Telephassa, and begat a daughter Europa and three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”
child: Phoenix “Agenor went to Phoenicia , married Telephassa, and begat a daughter Europa and three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”
child: Cilix “Agenor went to Phoenicia , married Telephassa, and begat a daughter Europa and three sons, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

parent: Niobe “who bore seven sons, Sipylus, Eupinytus, Ismenus, Damasichthon, Agenor, Phaedimus, Tantalus, and the same number of daughters, Ethodaia ( or, as some say, Neaera), Cleodoxa, Astyoche, Phthia, Pelopia, Astycratia, and Ogygia,”
parent: Amphion “Amphion married Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, who bore seven sons, Sipylus, Eupinytus, Ismenus, Damasichthon, Agenor, Phaedimus, Tantalus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.7

parent: Phegeus “Pronous and Agenor, the sons of Phegeus”
siblings with Pronous “Pronous and Agenor, the sons of Phegeus”
with Amphoterus (interaction) “the sons of Alcmaeon killed their father's murderers”
with Acarnan (Acarnan participated in killing Agenor.) “the sons of Alcmaeon killed their father's murderers”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

courtship with Penelope “Clytius, Agenor, Eurypylus”
admired: Penelope “From Dulichium came fifty-seven: Amphinomus, Thoas, Demoptolemus, Amphimachus, Euryalus, Paralus, Evenorides, Clytius, Agenor, Eurypylus, Pylaemenes, Acamas, Thersilochus, Hagius, Clymenus, Philodemus, Meneptolemus, Damastor, Bias, Telmius, Polyidus, Astylochus, Schedius, Antigonus, Marpsius, Iphidamas, Argius, Glaucus, Calydoneus, Echion, Lamas, Andraemon, Agerochus, Medon, Agrius, Promus, Ctesius, Acarnan, Cycnus, Pseras, Hellanicus, Periphron, Megasthenes, Thrasymedes, Ormenius, Diopithes, Mecisteus, Antimachus, Ptolemaeus, Lestorides, Nicomachus, Polypoetes, and Ceraus.”

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