Agenor (Phenicia)

Agenor ( ancient Greek Ἀγήνωρ ) also Agenoras of Sidon (according to other sources by Tire ) was a Phoenician king in Greek mythology , the son of Poseidon and Libya and the brother of Belos and Lamia .

With Telephassa he begat Europe , Kadmos , Phoinix , Kilix , Thasos and Phineus .

When Zeus kidnapped his daughter Europa, he sent his sons to find her again or not to return. The latter happened. He lost his wife Telephassa, who had accompanied her sons.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Agenor 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 102 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Ferdinand Dümmler : Agenor 1g . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 774 f.

Web links

• Agenor in the Greek Myth Index (English)