Antēnor
（
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.)
