Agenor, son of Jasus

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Agenor (Gr. Ἀγήνωρ) was a son of Jasus, and, in some mythological traditions, father of the giant Argus Panoptes.[1][2] Hellanicus of Lesbos states that Agenor was a son of Phoroneus, and brother of Jasus and Pelasgus, and that after their father's death, the two elder brothers divided his dominions between themselves in such a manner that Pelasgus re­ceived the country about the river Erasmus, and built Larissa, and Jasus the country about Elis. After the death of these two, Agenor, the young­est, invaded their dominions, and thus became king of Argos.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Agenor (2)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 68 
  2. ^ Apollodorus, ii. 1. § 2
  3. ^ Hellanicus of Lesbos, Fragm. p. 47, ed. Sturz.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).