Agenor is presented in epic genealogies as a son of Antenor and Theano within the Trojan nobility; he is one of the named defenders of Troy whose lineage places him among Antenor's many sons who fought in the Trojan War. As a member of that family cluster he functions as a wartime leader and exemplar of heroic manliness within the Homeric social world.
Primary sources do not provide a sustained physical portrait beyond the conventions of a Homeric warrior armed for battle (spear, shield, typical Homeric armour). Later cultural memory commemorates him visually—his figure appears in Polygnotus' painting in the Lesche of Delphi as reported by Pausanias—but the supplied sources do not record specific details of that painted likeness or any unique iconographic markers.
Agenor's recorded 'abilities' are those of a courageous and capable mortal warrior and leader: in Iliad Book 21 he steadies himself during Achilles' onslaught, hurls a spear that strikes Achilles' greaves, and confronts the hero to protect retreating Trojans. His immediate survival in that episode depends on divine intervention—Apollo removes Agenor in a veil of mist and then takes Agenor's form to lure Achilles away. Later mythographers (e.g., Hyginus, Quintus Smyrnaeus) attribute various battlefield kills to him in differing counts; Pausanias records a tradition in which Agenor wounds Lycomedes but is later killed by Neoptolemus. These accounts attest to his role as an active but ultimately mortal combatant whose fate varies across traditions.
Weaknesses
- conditionmortal vulnerability
- othersurvival dependent on divine intervention (Apollo) in Iliad account
Wards
None recorded.
Achilles
A legendary Greek heroic figure of epic poetry, son of the sea‑nymph Thetis and the mortal Peleus, celebrated as the greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy whose anger and fate shape events in the Trojan War cycle.
Neoptolemus
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*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
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Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
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Abarbarea
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Abas
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Abderus
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Abomination of Desolation
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Absyrtus
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Acacallis
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Acacus
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Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
Acamas
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Acantha
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