Editing Agenor (section)

==Family==
Agenor was born in [[Memphis, Egypt|Memphis]], [[Egypt]] to [[Poseidon]] and [[Libya of Egypt|Libya]]<ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''[[The Suppliants (Aeschylus)|Suppliant Women]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aesch.+Supp.+291&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0016:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 317]</ref> and he had a twin brother named [[Belus (Egyptian)|Belus]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 2.1.4] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.1.1]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157]; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]], ''Chiliades'' [https://topostext.org/work/617#7.348 7.349–350]; [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] ad [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Serv.+A.+1.338&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 1.338]; [[Scholia]] on [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women|Phoenissae]]'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n286/mode/1up?view=theater 5]</ref> The latter remained in Egypt and reigned over there while Agenor departed to Phoenicia and reigned there.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.1.1]; Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' [https://topostext.org/work/617#7.348 7.351–352]</ref> In a rare version of the myth, Agenor and Belus had another brother named [[Enyalius|Enyalios]].<ref name=":3" /> According to other sources, he was the son of Belus and brother of [[Phineus (son of Belus)|Phineus]], [[Phoenix (son of Agenor)|Phoenix]], [[Aegyptus]] and [[Danaus]].<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/529#3.284 3.296–304] & [https://topostext.org/work/529#3.351 363–364]</ref> This tradition was followed by [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] but he added [[Ninus]] as one of the six brothers. The same author claimed that there were two Agenors, the first one being the brother of Belus while the second was the son of the latter, thus uncle of the first Agenor.<ref>Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' [https://topostext.org/work/617#7.159 7.162–163]</ref>

Sources differed also as to Agenor's children; he was said to have been the father of [[Europa (consort of Zeus)|Europa]],<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#78.1 5.78.1]; Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+2.833&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 2.858]; [[Statius]], ''[[Achilleid]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/813#2.49 2.72–74]; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.1.1]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#155 155] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#178 178]; [[Lucian]], ''Dialogi Marini'' [https://topostext.org/work/351#15 15] & ''De dea Syria'' [https://topostext.org/work/340#4 4]; [[Jerome|St. Jerome]], ''Chronicon'' [https://topostext.org/work/530#B1284 B1284]; [[Tatian]], ''Address to the Greeks'' [https://topostext.org/work/546#33 33]; Scholiast on [[Plato]], ''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]'' 24e; Malalas, ''Chronographia'' [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.30 2.30]; [[Marcus Terentius Varro|Varro]], ''De lingua latina libri'' [https://topostext.org/work/728#5.31 5.31]; [[Liber Memorialis|Ampelius]], ''Liber Memorialis'' [https://topostext.org/work/746#2.1 2.1]; [[Rutilius Claudius Namatianus|Rutilius Namatianus]], ''De reditu suo'' [https://topostext.org/work/723#1.249 1.249]</ref> [[Cadmus]],<ref>[[Herodotus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+4.147.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126:book=:chapter=&highlight=agenor 4.147.4]; [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Soph.+OT+255&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0192:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 268]; [[Bacchylides]], ''[[Dithyramb]]s'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Bacchyl.+Dith.+19&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0064:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 19.46–48]; [[Euripides]], ''[[The Bacchae|Bacchae]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.+Ba.+170&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0092:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 170–171]; [[Apollonius of Rhodes|Apollonius Rhodius]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/126#3.1163 3.1186] with scholia; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3E*.html#74.6 3.74.6], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4A*.html#2.1 4.2.1], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#48.5 5.48.5], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#57.5 5.57.5] & [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#58.2 5.58.2]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+3.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.8], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+3.95&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.97] & [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+4.563&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 4.563], ''[[Epistulae ex Ponto]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/664#1.3.49 1.3.77]; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.1.1]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#6 6], [https://topostext.org/work/206#76 76], [https://topostext.org/work/206#178 178], [https://topostext.org/work/206#274 274] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#275 275]; Lucian, ''De dea Syria'' [https://topostext.org/work/340#4 4]; [[Parian Chronicle|Marmor Parium]], ''Chronicle'' [https://topostext.org/work/119#8 8]; Malalas, ''Chronographia'' [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.30 2.30] & [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.39 39]; Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+3.15.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.15.8]; Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' [https://topostext.org/work/529#2.1 2.3], [https://topostext.org/work/529#2.679 2.680], [https://topostext.org/work/529#2.699 2.699], [https://topostext.org/work/529#5.212 3.218] & [https://topostext.org/work/529#44.82 44.101]; Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' [https://topostext.org/work/617#12.110 12.112]; [[Aristophanes]], ''Frogs'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristoph.+Frogs+1206&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0032:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 1225–1226]; [[Eusebius]], ''[[Praeparatio evangelica]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/230#2.2.1 2.2.1] & [https://topostext.org/work/230#10.4.4 10.4.4]</ref> [[Cilix]],<ref>Herodotus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+7.91.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 7.91.1]; [[Scholia]]st on [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women|Phoenissae]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=euripides 6]; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.1.1]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#178 178]; Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' [https://topostext.org/work/529#2.679 2.685]; Malalas, ''Chronographia'' [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.30 2.30]–[https://topostext.org/work/793#2.31 31]</ref> [[Phoenix (son of Agenor)|Phoenix]],<ref>Scholiast on Euripides, ''Phoenissae'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=euripides 6]; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.1.1]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#178 178]; [[Dictys Cretensis]], [https://topostext.org/work/152#1.9 1.9]; [[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#40 40]; Malalas, ''Chronographia'' [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.30 2.30]–[https://topostext.org/work/793#2.31 31]; [[Suda]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/240#phi.787 Phoenician letters]''</ref> [[Phineus]],<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' [https://topostext.org/work/126#2.178 2.178], [https://topostext.org/work/126#2.178 2.236–237], [https://topostext.org/work/126#2.240 2.240], [https://topostext.org/work/126#2.291 2.293–294], [https://topostext.org/work/126#2.426 2.426], [https://topostext.org/work/126#2.490 2.490], [https://topostext.org/work/126#2.593 2.618] & [https://topostext.org/work/126#3.938 3.943] with scholia on 2.178; Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.21&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 1.9.21]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#14.3 14], [https://topostext.org/work/206#19 19], [https://topostext.org/work/206#76 76]; [[Dictys Cretensis]], [https://topostext.org/work/152#3.5 3.5]; ''[[Orphic Argonautica]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/549#680 680 ff.]; [[Valerius Flaccus (poet)|Valerius Flaccus]], [https://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus4.html 4.444], [https://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus4.html 522] & [https://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus4.html 582]</ref> [[Thasus]]<ref>Scholiast on ''Euripides, Phoenissae'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=euripides 6]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.25.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 5.25.12]; Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' [https://topostext.org/work/529#2.679 2.684]</ref> and sometimes, [[Syrus|Syros]]<ref>Malalas, ''Chronographia'' [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.30 2.30]–[https://topostext.org/work/793#2.31 31] & [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.34 34]</ref> and [[Cepheus (father of Andromeda)|Cepheus]].<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' [https://topostext.org/work/529#2.679 2.682–683]</ref> Agenor's wife was variously given as [[Telephassa]],<ref name=":2">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=:chapter=&highlight=Agenor 3.1.1]</ref> [[Argiope (mythology)|Argiope]],<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#6 6] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#178 178]</ref><ref name=":1" /> [[Antiope (Greek myth)|Antiope]],<ref name=":0">[[Scholia]]st on [[Euripides]], ''Phoenician Women'' 5; Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' [https://topostext.org/work/617#7.159 7.165–166]</ref> and [[Tyro (mythology)|Tyro]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Gomme|first=A. W.|title=The Legend of Cadmus and the Logographoi|journal=JHS|year=1913|page=70}}</ref> with the latter giving her name to the city of Tyre.<ref name=":3">[[John Malalas|Malalas]], [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.30 2.30]</ref> According to [[Pherecydes of Athens]], his first wife was [[Damno (mythology)|Damno]], daughter of Belus, who bore him Phoenix and two daughters, [[Isaia (mythology)|Isaia]] and [[Melia (mythology)|Melia]], who married Aegyptus and Danaus, respectively; Agenor then fathered Cadmus with Argiope, daughter of the river-god [[Nilus (mythology)|Neilus]].<ref name=":1">Gantz, p. 208; [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]] fr. 21 Fowler 2000, p. 289 = ''[[FGrHist]]'' 3 F 21 = Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius,&nbsp;''Argonautica'' 3.1177-87f</ref>

In the ''[[Iliad]]'', however, Europa was clearly a daughter of Phoenix.<ref>{{Iliad|en|14|321|22|ref}}</ref> Either Cadmus or Europa were confirmed as children of Phoenix by the ''Ehoeae'' attributed to [[Hesiod]],<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women|Ehoiai]]'' 19a as cited in [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' 1358]] fr. 1 and Scholiast on Homer, ''Iliad'' 12.292</ref> [[Bacchylides]],<ref>[[Bacchylides]], ''[[Dithyramb]]s'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Bacchyl.+Dith.+17&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0064:book=:chapter=&highlight=Phoenix 17.31]</ref> [[Moschus]]<ref>[[Moschus]], ''Europa'' [https://www.theoi.com/Text/Moschus.html#2 7]</ref> and various [[scholia]].<ref>Scholiast on [[Plato]], ''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]'' 24e; on Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 3.1186; Malalas, ''Chronographia'' [https://topostext.org/work/793#2.30 2.30]</ref> Cilix and Phineus were also sons of Phoenix according to Pherecydes, who also added an otherwise unknown son named [[Doryclus]].<ref>Pherecydes, fr. 86 Fowler 2000, p. 320 = ''[[FGrHist]]'' 3 F 86</ref>

Most later sources listed Cadmus and Cilix as sons of Agenor directly without mentioning Phoenix. On the rare occasions when he was mentioned, Phoenix was listed as the brother of Cadmus and Cilix. Whether he was included as a brother of Agenor or as a son, his role in mythology was limited to inheriting his father's kingdom and to becoming the eponym of the [[Phoenicia]]ns. All accounts agreed on a Phoenician king who has several children, including the two sons named Cadmus and Cilix and a daughter named Europa.

A certain [[Eidothea (Greek myth)|Eidothea]], wife of Phineus, was called the sister of Cadmus and thus maybe the daughter of Agenor.<ref>Scholia on [[Sophocles]], ''Antigone'' 989</ref><ref>[[Richard Claverhouse Jebb|Sir Richard C. Jebb]]. ''[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0023%3Atext%3Dcomm%3Acommline%3D966 Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, 966]''</ref> [[Taygete]], usually one of the [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Pleiades]] and mother of [[Lacedaemon (mythology)|Lacedemon]] by [[Zeus]] was also said to be the daughter of Agenor.<ref>Dictys Cretensis, [https://topostext.org/work/152#1.9 1.9]</ref>
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