Agenor
Family: The Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: Book VI · Part 4
In Book VI, Agenor killed Molus, who had come from Argos with King Sthenelus. In Book VIII, he killed Hippomenes, Teucer’s comrade, with a thrust between shoulder and neck, and also killed Deiophontes with two arrows. In Book XI, he killed Hippasus and slew an unnamed Greek by cleaving his shoulder and arm with a spear; he and Helenus held the wall against Neoptolemus’s forces. In Book XIII, Neoptolemus killed Agenor in battle.
Relationship record
Life events
- Agenor killed Molus, who had come from Argos with king Sthenelus.(Book VI · Part 4)
- With: Molus Sthenelus
- “Agenor smote Molus the princely,--with king Sthenelus He came from Argos,--hurled from far behind A dart new-whetted, as he fled from fight, Piercing his right leg, and the eager shaft Cut sheer through the broad sinew, shattering The bones with anguished pain: and so his doom Met him, to die a death of agony.”
- Agenor killed Hippomenes, Teucer's comrade, with a thrust between shoulder and neck.(Book VIII · Part 2)
- With: Hippomenes Teucer
- “And hard thereby great-souled Agenor slew Hippomenes, hero Teucer's comrade staunch, With one swift thrust 'twixt shoulder and neck: his soul Rushed forth in blood; death's night swept over him.”
- Agenor killed Deiophontes with two arrows.(Book VIII · Part 2)
- With: Deiophontes
- “Yet nigh him Deiophontes stood; the shaft Into his left eye plunged, passed through the ball, And out through his right ear, because the Fates Whither they willed thrust on the bitter barbs. Even as in agony he leapt full height, Yet once again the archer's arrow hissed: It pierced his throat, through the neck-sinews cleft Unswerving, and his hard doom came on him.”
- Agenor killed Hippasus.(Book XI · Part 1)
- With: Hippasus (slain by Agenor)
- “Hippasus, How war-renowned soe'er, Agenor slew Far from Peneius' river.”
- Agenor slew a Greek by cleaving his shoulder and arm with a spear.(Book XI · Part 2)
- With: the unnamed Greek slain by Agenor
- “But fierce Agenor thrust Ere he was ware; his two-edged partizan Shore though his shoulder; yea, the very bone Of that gashed arm was cloven by the steel; The tendons parted, the veins spirted blood: Down by his horse's neck he slid, and straight Fell mid the dead.”
- Neoptolemus killed Agenor in battle.(Book XIII · Part 2)
- With: Neoptolemus
- “Agenor faced him in the fight, and fell:”
Book VI · Part 4
- with Molus (interaction) “Agenor smote Molus the princely,--with king Sthenelus He came from Argos”
- enemies with Molus “Agenor smote Molus the princely”
Book VIII · Part 2
- with Hippomenes (Agenor kills Hippomenes in combat.) “And hard thereby great-souled Agenor slew Hippomenes, hero Teucer's comrade staunch,”
- with Teucer (Teucer attempts to shoot Agenor after Hippomenes is slain.) “Grief for his comrade slain on Teucer fell; He strained his bow, a swift-winged shaft he sped, But smote him not, for slightly Agenor swerved.”
Book XI · Part 1
- with Hippasus (slain by Agenor) (interaction) “Hippasus, How war-renowned soe'er, Agenor slew”
Book XI · Part 2
- with the unnamed Greek slain by Agenor (Agenor wounds the unnamed Greek; the Greek subsequently falls dead.) “But fierce Agenor thrust Ere he was ware; his two-edged partizan Shore though his shoulder; yea, the very bone Of that gashed arm was cloven by the steel;”
- with Neoptolemus (They are opposing commanders at the gate.) “Before the Gate Idaean Achilles' son Set in array the fight: around him toiled His host of battle-cunning Myrmidons. Helenus and Agenor gallant-souled, Down-hailing darts, against them held the wall”
- with Helenus (They jointly defend the wall.) “Helenus and Agenor gallant-souled, Down-hailing darts, against them held the wall, Aye cheering on their men.”
Book XIII · Part 2
- with Neoptolemus (interaction) “Agenor faced him in the fight, and fell:”
- with Neoptolemus (interaction) “Agenor faced him in the fight, and fell:”
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