Antenor
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
- A noble Trojan, who was in favor of restoring Helen and making peace with the Greeks; after the fall of Troy, he went to Italy and founded Patavium (Padua), Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 247; Ov. M. 13, 201; id. F. 4, 75; Liv. 1, 1.— Hence,
- II Derivv.
- A Antēnŏrĕus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Antenor; or, Patavian, Paduan, Mart. 1, 77; 4, 25.—
- B Antēnŏrĭdes, ae, m., a male descendant of Antenor, Verg. A. 6, 484; also, an inhabitant of Padua, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 252.
(Ἀντήνωρ), a Trojan, a son of Aesyetes and Cleomestra, and husband of Theano, by whom he had many children. (Hom. Il. 6.398; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 349.) According to the Homeric account, he was one of the wisest among the elders at Troy, and received Menelaus and Odysseus into his house when they came to Troy as ambassadors. (Il. 3.146, &c., 203, &c.) He also advised his fellow-citizens to restore Helen to Menelaus. (Il. 7.348, &c.) This is the substance of all that is said about him in the Homeric poems; but the suggestion contained therein, that Antenor entertained a friendly disposition towards the Greeks, has been seized upon and exaggerated by later writers. Before the Trojan war, he is said to have been sent by Priam to Greece to claim the surrender of Hesione, who had been carried off by the Greeks; but this mission was not followed by any favourable result. (Dares Phryg. 5.) When Menelaus and Odysseus came to Troy, they would have been killed by the sons of Priam, had it not been for the protection which Antenor afforded them. (Dict. Cret. 1.11.) Just before the taking of Troy his friendship for the Greeks assumes the character of treachery towards his own country; for when sent to Agamemnon to negotiate peace, he devised with him and Odysseus a plan of delivering the city, and even the palladium, into their hands. (Dict. Cret. 4.22, 5.8; Serv. ad Aen. 1.246, 651, 2.15; Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 339; Suidas, s. v. παλλάδιον.) When Troy was plundered, the skin of a panther was hung up at the door of Antenor's house, as a sign for the Greeks not to commit any outrage upon it. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 5.108; Paus. 10.17; Strab. xiii. p.608.) His history after this event is related differently. Dictys (5.17; comp. Serv. ad Aen. 9.264) states, that he founded a new kingdom at Troy upon and out of the remnants of the old one; and according to others, he embarked with Menelaus and Helen, was carried to Libya, and settled at Cyrene (Pind. P. 5.110); or he went with the Heneti to Thrace, and thence to the western coast of the Adriatic, where the foundation of several towns is ascribed to him. (Strab. l.c. ; Serv. ad Aen. 1.1; Liv. 1.1.) Antenor with his family and his house, on which the panther's skin was seen, was painted in the Lesche at Delphi. (Paus. l.c.) [L.S]
(Ἀντήνωρ), the son of Euphranor, an Athenian sculptor, made the first bronze statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, which the Athenians set up in the Cerameicus. (B. C. 509.) These statues were carried off to Susa by Xerxes, and their place was supplied by others made either by Callias or by Praxiteles. After the conquest of Persia, Alexander the Great sent the statues back to Athens, where they were again set up in the Cerameicus. (Paus. 1.8.5; Arr. Anab. 3.16, 7.19; Plin. Nat. 34.9; ib. 19.10; Böckh, Corp. Inscrip. ii. p. 340.) The return of the statues is ascribed by Pausanias (l.c.) to one of the Antiochi, by Valerius Maximus (2.10, ext. § 1) to Seleucus; but the account of Arrian, that they were returned by Alexander, is to be preferred. (See also Meursii Pisistrat. 14.) [P.S]
(Ἀντήνωρ), a Greek writer of uncertain date, wrote a work upon the history of Crete, which on account of its excellence was called Δέλτα, inasmuch as, says Ptolemy Hephaestion (ap. Phot. Cod. 190, p. 151b. Bekk.), the Cretans called that which is good Δέλτον. (Aelian, Ael. NA 17.35; Plut. de Mal. Herod. 100.32.)
(Ἀντήνωρ). (1) A Trojan prince related to Priam. He was the husband of Theano , daughter of Cisseus, king of Thrace, and father of nineteen sons, of whom the most known were Polybus, Acamas, Agenor, Polydamas, Helicaon, Archilochus, and Laodocus. He is accused by some of having betrayed his country, not only because he gave a favourable reception to Diomedes, Odysseus, and Menelaüs, when they came to Troy, as ambassadors from the Greeks, to demand the restitution of Helen, but also because he withheld the fact of his recognizing Odysseus, at the time that hero visited the city under the guise of a mendicant ( Od. iv. 335). After the conclusion of the war Antenor , according to some, migrated with a party of followers into Italy, and built Patavium. According to others, he went with a colony of the Heneti, or Veneti, from Paphlagonia to the shores of the Hadriatic, where the new settlers established themselves in the district called by them Venetia (Liv.i. 1; Plin.iii. 13; Verg. Aen. i. 242; Tac.xvi. 21).
(2) A statuary, known only as the maker of the original statues of Harmodius and Aristogiton, which were carried off by Xerxes, and restored by Alexander. (Pausan. i. 8.)
- receives Menelaus and Odysseus hospitably: Apollod. E.3.27, Paus. 10.26.7
- house and family of: Paus. 10.27.3, 4
- father of Iphidamas: Paus. 5.19.4
- father of Archelochus and Acamas: Apollod. E.3.34
- father of Glaucus: Apollod. E.5.21
- Paus. 1.8.5
- Apollod. E.7.29