Agapenor
{{Short description|Ancient Greek mythological figure from the Iliad}}
In Greek mythology, Agapenor ({{langx|grc|Ἀγαπήνωρ}}) was a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan War.{{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 }}
Family
Agapenor was a son of AncaeusApollodorus, [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, [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] and grandson of Lycurgus.
Mythology
As king of the Arcadians, Agapenor received sixty ships from Agamemnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy.Homer, Iliad 2.609; Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97] He also occurs among the suitors of HelenApollodorus, [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] and one of the men to be in the Trojan Horse.Homer, The Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore, 1951
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.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]
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.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]
Agapenor had a descendant Laodice, who was known for having sent to Tegea a robe (peplos) as a gift to Athena Alea,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] and to have built a temple of Aphrodite Paphia in Tegea.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]
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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. {{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].
- 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, 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].
- 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, 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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