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{{Short description|Ancient Greek mythological figure from the Iliad}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Agapenor''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀγαπήνωρ}}) was a leader of the [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]ns in the [[Trojan War]].<ref>{{Citation  | last = Schmitz  | first = Leonhard  | contribution = Agapenor  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]  | volume = 1  | pages = 59  | place = Boston  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0068.html  | access-date = 2007-12-28  | archive-date = 2010-06-16  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100616135039/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0068.html  | url-status = dead  }}</ref>

== Family ==
Agapenor was a son of [[Ancaeus (son of Lycurgus)|Ancaeus]]<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.10.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agapenor 3.10.8]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.5.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agapenor 8.5.2]</ref> and grandson of [[Lycurgus (Arcadia)|Lycurgus]].

== Mythology ==
As king of the [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]ns, Agapenor received sixty ships from [[Agamemnon]], in which he led his Arcadians to [[Troy]].<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 2.609; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97]</ref> He also occurs among the [[suitors of Helen]]<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.10.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agapenor 3.10.8]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#81 81]</ref> and one of the men to be in the [[Trojan Horse]].<ref>Homer, ''The Iliad'' translated by Richmond Lattimore, 1951</ref>

On Agapenor's 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]].<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.5.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agapenor 8.5.2]</ref>

Agapenor also occurs in the story of [[Alcmaeon (mythology)|Alcmaeon]]: it was to him that Arsinoe (or [[Alphesiboea of Psophis|Alphesiboea]]), Alcmaeon's wife was sold away by her own brothers.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.7.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agapenor 3.7.5]</ref>

Agapenor had a descendant [[Laodice (Greek myth)|Laodice]], who was known for having sent to [[Tegea]] a robe (peplos) as a gift to [[Athena Alea]],<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.5.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agapenor 8.5.3]</ref> and to have built a temple of [[Aphrodite]] Paphia in Tegea.<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.53.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agapenor 8.53.7]</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]], ''The Greek Myths'', Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960. {{ISBN|978-0143106715}}
*Graves, Robert, ''The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition.'' Penguin Books Limited. 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-241-98338-6|024198338X}}
*[[Homer]], [[Iliad|''The Iliad'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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