Agapenor

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Agapenor (Greek: Ἀγαπήνωρ) was a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan war.[1] He was a son of Ancaeus, and grandson of Lycurgus. As king of the Arcadians he received sixty ships from Agamemnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy.[2][3] He also occurs among the suitors of Helen.[4][5] He was one of the men to be in the Trojan Horse.[6]

On his return from Troy he was cast by a storm on the coast of Cyprus, where he founded the town of Paphos and in it the famous temple of Aphrodite.[7] He also occurs in the story of Alcmaeon: it was to him that Arsinoe (Alphesiboea), Alcmaeon's wife was sold away by her own brothers.[8]

Agapenor had a daughter Laodice, who was known for having sent to Tegea a robe as a gift to Athena Alea,[9] and to have built a temple of Aphrodite Paphia in Tegea.[10]

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  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Homer, Iliad 2. 609, &e.
  3. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  4. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 81
  5. ↑ Bibliotheca 3. 10. § 8
  6. ↑ Homer, The Iliad, translated by Richmond Lattimore, 1951
  7. ↑ Pausanias, 8. 5. § 2, &c.
  8. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 7. § 5, &c.
  9. ↑ Pausanias, 8. 5. 3
  10. ↑ Pausanias, 8. 53. 7
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