Agapenor
Family: Arcadian genealogy · Role: leader of the Arcadians · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 5
In Book 8, Chapter 5, Agapenor, son of Ancæus and grandson of Lycurgus, succeeded Echemus and led the Arcadians to Troy. His daughter Laodice later sent a robe for Athene Alea to Tegea.
After the capture of Ilium, a storm carried Agapenor and the Arcadian fleet to Cyprus. There he founded Paphos and erected a temple to Aphrodite. The kingdom later devolved upon Hippothous.
Relationship record
Life events
- Agapenor founded Paphos and erected Aphrodite’s temple there.(Book 8 · Chapter 5 · 📍 Paphos)
- With: Aphrodite
- “And after the capture of Ilium the storm which fell on the Greeks as they were sailing home carried Agapenor and the Arcadian fleet to Cyprus, and he became the founder of Paphos, and erected the temple of Aphrodite in that town”
Book 8 · Chapter 5
- with Lycurgus (grandparent and grandchild) “And Agapenor, the son of Ancæus and grandson of Lycurgus, succeeded Echemus and led the Arcadians to Troy.”
- parent: Ancæus (son of Lycurgus) “And Agapenor, the son of Ancæus and grandson of Lycurgus, succeeded Echemus and led the Arcadians to Troy.”
- child: Laodice “And afterwards Laodice, the daughter of Agapenor, sent to Tegea a robe for Athene Alea”
- with Echemus (Agapenor succeeded Echemus as king.) “Agapenor, the son of Ancæus and grandson of Lycurgus, succeeded Echemus and led the Arcadians to Troy.”
- with Aphrodite (interaction) “he became the founder of Paphos, and erected the temple of Aphrodite in that town”
- with Hippothous (Hippothous succeeded Agapenor as king.) “the kingdom devolved upon Hippothous, the son of Cercyon, the son of Agamedes, the son of Stymphelus.”
Book 8 · Chapter 53
- child: Laodice “which was erected by Laodice, who was, as I have stated before, a daughter of that Agapenor who led the Arcadians to Troy”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.