Antenor
Antenor ( ancient Greek Ἀντήνωρ ), son of Aisyetes and Cleomestra and consort of Theano , was, according to the tradition of Homer, one of the wisest of the old Trojans .
Antenor welcomed Menelaus and Odysseus when they came to Troy as peace envoy before the outbreak of the Trojan War and protected their lives. With him Priam went out to bring about an armistice between the two peoples and to agree that a duel between Paris and Menelaus should put an end to the war. When Hector and Aias finally faced each other in a duel, he suggested making peace by returning Helena .
Antenor also did not appear in action with Homer. Other authors later described his friendly relationship with the Greeks as treason by letting him open the gates of Troy against great promises on the part of the Greek princes. When the city was destroyed, his house, which was marked with a panther skin, was spared on Agamemnon's orders. In his Inferno, Dante Alighieri calls the ninth and last circle of hell, in which the traitors atone, “Antenor's Pit”.
After Troy fell, he is said to have either founded a new city on the ruins of the old city or, along with his sons (including Glaucus ), went under sail with Menelaus and settled in Cyrene . According to Roman tradition, he led the Heneters ( Venetians ) expelled from Paphlagonia to Italy at the mouth of the Po , where he founded the city of Patavium ( Padua ).
He had 11 sons, according to Homer (seven of whom died in the Trojan War):
- Agenor , Akamas and Archelochos , Demoleon , Iphidamas , Helikaon , Koon , Laodamas , Laodokos , Pedaios , Polybos
Later sources also added:
literature
- Richard Wagner : Antenor 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2351-2353.
- Hans von Geisau : Antenor 1). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 369.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 3,203; Library of Apollodor Epitome 3.28; Aelian , De natura animalium 14, 8; Scholien to Homer, Iliad 3,201 and 3,206; among others
- ↑ Lykophron , Alexandra 340; among others
- ↑ Scholia to Homer: Iliad 3,201 and 3,206; Servius to Virgil , Aeneid 1,242; among others
- ↑ Dante: Divine Comedy , Inferno . Chant 32, verse 88.
- ↑ Pindar , Pythien 5, 83 ff.
- ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 1,1,1–3; Virgil, Aeneis 1, 242-249; Aelian, De natura animalium 14.8.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 11:59; 21,579.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 2,822.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 20,359.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 11,221.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 3,123.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 11,248.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 4.87.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 5,69.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 11:59.
- ↑ Scholion and Tzetzes to Lycophrons Alexandra 134.
- ^ Lysimachus in the Scholion at Pindar , Pythian Odes 5,108; Tzetzes, Scholien zu Lykophrons Alexandra 874.
- ^ Servius, Commentary on Virgil, Aeneis 1,242.
- ↑ Virgil, Aeneid 6,483.