Antenor
- 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). (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