Agenorides

The descendants of the Phoenician king Agenor are referred to as Agenorides ( ancient Greek Ἀγηνορίδης ) in Greek mythology .

Usually his son Kadmos is referred to as Agenoridos, often also his son Phineus . Occasionally, Perseus Agenorides is also mentioned as the ancestor of Agenor . As subjects of the Cadmos, the inhabitants of Thebes wear the name as a poetic popular designation.

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Agenorides . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 106 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Ferdinand Dümmler : Agenorides. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 775.

Remarks

1. ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 3, 1186.
2. ^ Ovid Metamorphoses 3, 8.
3. ↑ Nonnos of Panopolis 3, 2.
4. ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 2, 178.
5. ^ Gaius Valerius Flaccus 4, 582.
6. ^ Ovid Metamorphoses 4, 771.
7. ↑ Euripides The Phoenicians 217.