Agenor
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Greek King of Tyre (in Phoenicia); son
of the sea god Poseidon and Libya; father of Europa,
Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix; husband of Telephassa.
After the god Zeus carried off Europa, Agenor sent
his three sons in search of their sister. The sons
did not find her, and settled down elsewhere to
found new nations. Phoenix was the ancestor of the
Phoenicians; Cilix of the Cilicians; and the celebrated
Cadmus, who settled in Boeotia and built the Cadmea
(a fortress), was the founder of the city of Thebes.
Aeolus
The dispersal of Agenor's sons seems to refer
to the westward flight of the Canaanite tribe (early
Phoenicians) in the second millennium b.c.,
Liens utiles
- Libya (1) Greek Mother, with sea god Poseidon, of Agenor, king of Tyre.
- Phoenix Greek Son of Agenor brother of Cadmus, Cilix, and Europa.