Antenor (mythology)

	Email		Print
	Bookmark		Link

Antenor (mythology)

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Antenor (??t????; gen.: ??t??????) was a son of the Dardanian noble Aesyetes by Cleomestra. He was one of the wisest of the Trojan elders and counsellors. Antenor was husband of Theano

Theano

Theano was the priestess of Athena in Troy. She was the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus, wife of Antenor , and mother of many sons. The household of Antenor and Theano advocated peace and advised Helen's return to the Greeks....
, daughter of Cisseus

Cisseus

In Greek mythology, Cisseus was a Thracian king and father of Theano, the wife of Antenor , as related in Homer's Iliad. His wife was Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy....
of Thrace, who bore him numerous children, mostly sons (most of whom perished during the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
). Before and during the Trojan War, he was a councilor of King Priam

Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
. He advised his fellow-townsmen to send Helen

Helen

In Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra....
back to the Greeks

Menelaus

Menelaus may refer to;*Menelaus, one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope*Menelaus on the Moon, named after Menelaus of Alexandria....
, and showed himself not unfriendly to the Greeks and an advocate of peace.

Discussion

Ask a question about 'Antenor (mythology)'

Start a new discussion about 'Antenor (mythology)'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Theano

Cisseus

Trojan War

Priam

Helen

Menelaus

Dictys Cretensis

Dictys Cretensis was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worked up by Homer for the Iliad....
) he was said to have treacherously opened the gates of Troy to the enemy; in return for which, at the general sack of the city, his house, marked by a panther's skin at the door, was spared by the victors. Afterwards, according to various versions of the legend, he either rebuilt a city on the site of Troy, or settled at Cyrene

Cyrene, Libya

Cyrene was an ancient Greece colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times....
, or became the founder of Patavium (currently Padua

Padua

Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 ....
). The circle Antenora, for traitors, is named after him in the Divine Comedy. Antenor's children by Theano include Archelochus

Archelochus

In the Iliad, Archelochus was a son of Antenor and along with his brother Acamas and Aeneas, shared the command of the Dardanians fighting on the side of the Trojans....
, Acamas

Acamas

Acamas was a name attributed to several characters in Greek mythology. The following three all fought in the Trojan War, and only the first was not mentioned by Homer....
, Glaucus

Glaucus

In Greek mythology, Glaucus was the name of several different figures, including one god . These figures are sometimes referred to as Glaukos or Glacus....
, Helicaon

Helicaon

In Greek mythology Helicaon is the son of Antenor and Theano. His wife Laodice fell in love with Acamas...
, Laodocus, Coon

Coon

Coon can refer to:*an abbreviation for raccoon*an List of ethnic slurs#C used for people of African descent. Popularized by the song "Zip Coon"....
, Polybus

Polybus

Polybus was one of the pupils of Hippocrates, and also his son-in-law. He lived on the island of Kos in the 4th century BC. With his brothers-in-law, Thessalus and Draco , he was one of the founders of the Dogmatic school of medicine....
, Agenor, Iphidamas, Laodamas

Laodamas

In Greek mythology, La?damas referred to three different people.#Son of Antenor and Theano.#Son of Alcinous and Arete .#Son of Eteocles. Laodamas inherited Thebes from his father....
, Demeleon, Eurymachus

Eurymachus

The name Eurymachus, or Eur?makhos, is attributed to the following individuals:...
, and Crino. He was also the father of a son Pedaeus, by an unknown woman.

Modern references

A minor planet

Minor planet

An asteroid group or minor planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid....
2207 Antenor

2207 Antenor

2207 Antenor is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on August 19, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory....
discovered in 1977 by Soviet

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh

Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet Union, Lithuanian and Russia astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast....
is named after him.

Sources

Homer, Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
III, 148, 203, 262; VII, 347.
Horace, Epp. i. 2. 9.
Livy, i. 1.
Pindar, Pythia, v. 83.