Agapenor
Template:Short description In Greek mythology, Agapenor (Template:Langx) was a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan War.[1]
Family
Agapenor was a son of Ancaeus[2] and grandson of Lycurgus.
Mythology
As king of the Arcadians, Agapenor received sixty ships from Agamemnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy.[3] He also occurs among the suitors of Helen[4] and one of the men to be in the Trojan Horse.[5]
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.[6]
Agapenor also occurs in the story of Alcmaeon: it was to him that Arsinoe (or Alphesiboea), Alcmaeon's wife was sold away by her own brothers.[7]
Agapenor had a descendant Laodice, who was known for having sent to Tegea a robe (peplos) as a gift to Athena Alea,[8] and to have built a temple of Aphrodite Paphia in Tegea.[9]
Notes
References
- 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, Harmondsworth, London, England, Penguin Books, 1960. Template:ISBN
- Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017. Template:ISBN
- Homer, 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.10.8; Pausanias, 8.5.2
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 2.609; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.10.8; Hyginus, Fabulae 81
- ↑ Homer, The Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore, 1951
- ↑ Pausanias, 8.5.2
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.7.5
- ↑ Pausanias, 8.5.3
- ↑ Pausanias, 8.53.7