Antenorides

A patronymic from Antenor, and applied to his sons and descendants.1 At Cyrene, where Antenor according to some accounts had settled after the destruction of Troy, the Antenoridae enjoyed heroic honors.2

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Aeneid vi, 484; Homer. Iliad xii, 221.
  2. Pindar. Pythian Odes v, 108.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

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