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Agenor
Agenor (; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήνωρ "Agēnor"; English translation: 'heroic, manly') was in Greek mythology and history a Phoenician king of Tyre. Herodotus estimates that Agenor lived sometime before the year 2000 BC.
Family.
According to Apollodorus, Agenor was born in Memphis of Egypt to Poseidon and Libya and he had a twin brother named Belus. Belus remained in Egypt and reigned over Egypt, while Agenor departed to Phoenicia and reigned there. According to other sources, he was the son
- Agenor, one of the suitors of Penelope from Dulichium.
- Agenor, another suitor of Penelope from Zacynthos.
- Agenor, son Areus, son of Ampyx. He was the father of Preugenes and paternal grandfather of Patreus, the founder of Patrae.
- Agenor, husband of Dioxippe and father of Sipylus, who unwittingly killed his mother.
References.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, "Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus" translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic