Agenor, son of Jasus

Agenor, son of Jasus

Agenor (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγήνωρ) was a son of Jasus, and, in some mythological traditions, father of the giant Argus Panoptes.Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Agenor (2) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 68 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0077.html ] [Apollodorus, ii. 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. [Hellanicus of Lesbos, "Fragm." p. 47, ed. Sturz.]

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