Global InformationAgenor information
| Agenor | |
|---|---|
King of Tyre or Sidon | |
| Member of the Phoenician Royal Family | |
| Abode | Egypt, later Phoenicia |
| Personal information | |
| Parents | (a) Poseidon and Libya (b) Belus |
| Siblings | (a) Belus and sometimes Enyalius (b) Phineus, Phoenix, Aegyptus, Danaus and Ninus |
| Consort | (1) Telephassa (2) Argiope (3) Antiope (4) Tyro (5) Damno (6) unknown (7) unknown (8) unknown (9) unknown (10) unknown |
| Children | (1,2) Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix and Cilix (3) Cadmus, Phoenix and Cilix (4) Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix and Syros (5) Phoenix, Isaie and Melia (6) Europa, Cadmus, Cilix, Thasus and Cepheus (7) Phoenix, Cilix and Thasus (8) Phineus (9) Eidothea (10) Taygete |
Agenor (/əˈdʒiːnɔːr/; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήνωρ or Αγήνορας Agēnor; English translation: "heroic, manly")[1] was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre[2] or Sidon. The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), born in the city of Halicarnassus under the Achaemenid Empire, estimated that Agenor lived either 1000 or 1600 years prior to his visit to Tyre in 450 BC at the end of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC).[3][4] He was said to have reigned in that city for 63 years.[5]
- ^ ἀγήνωρ. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ^ Schachter 2012, p. 38.
- ^ Herodotus (2003) [1954]. Marincola, John (ed.). Histories. Translated by de Sélincourt, Aubrey (Reprint ed.). New York: Penguin Books. p. 155. ISBN 978-0140449082.
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- ^ Herodotus, 2.145.1
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