Agenor

 ( Kings Of Tyre ) 

Sources differed also as to Agenor's children; he was said to have been the father of Europa,Diodorus Siculus, 5.78.1; Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.858; Statius, Achilleid 2.72–74; Apollodorus, 3.1.1; Hyginus, Fabulae 155 & 178; Lucian, Dialogi Marini 15 & De dea Syria 4; Jerome, Chronicon B1284; Tatian, Address to the Greeks 33; Scholiast on Plato, Timaeus 24e; Malalas, Chronographia 2.30; Varro, De lingua latina libri 5.31; Liber Memorialis, Liber Memorialis 2.1; Rutilius Namatianus, De reditu suo 1.249 Cadmus,Herodotus, 4.147.4; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 268; Bacchylides, 19.46–48; Euripides, The Bacchae 170–171; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1186 with scholia; Diodorus Siculus, 3.74.6, 4.2.1, 5.48.5, 5.57.5 & 5.58.2; Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.8, 3.97 & 4.563, Epistulae ex Ponto 1.3.77; Apollodorus, 3.1.1; Hyginus, Fabulae 6, 76, 178, 274 & 275; Lucian, De dea Syria 4; Parian Chronicle, Chronicle 8; Malalas, Chronographia 2.30 & 39; Pausanias, 3.15.8; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.3, 2.680, 2.699, 3.218 & 44.101; Tzetzes, Chiliades 12.112; Aristophanes, Frogs 1225–1226; Eusebius, Praeparatio evangelica 2.2.1 & 10.4.4 Cilix,Herodotus, 7.91.1; on Euripides, Phoenissae 6; Apollodorus, 3.1.1; Hyginus, Fabulae 178; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.685; Malalas, Chronographia 2.30– 31 Phoenix,Scholiast on Euripides, Phoenissae 6; Apollodorus, 3.1.1; Hyginus, Fabulae 178; Dictys Cretensis, 1.9; Antoninus Liberalis, 40; Malalas, Chronographia 2.30– 31; Suda, s.v. Phoenician letters Phineus,Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.178, 2.236–237, 2.240, 2.293–294, 2.426, 2.490, 2.618 & 3.943 with scholia on 2.178; Apollodorus, 1.9.21; Hyginus, Fabulae 14, 19, 76; Dictys Cretensis, 3.5; Orphic Argonautica 680 ff.; Valerius Flaccus, 4.444, 522 & 582 ThasusScholiast on Euripides, Phoenissae 6; Pausanias, 5.25.12; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.684 and sometimes, SyrusMalalas, Chronographia 2.30– 31 & 34 and Cepheus.Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.682–683 Agenor's wife was variously given as Telephassa,Apollodorus, 3.1.1 Argiope,Hyginus, Fabulae 6 & 178 Antiope, on Euripides, Phoenician Women 5; Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.165–166 and Tyro, with the latter giving her name to the city of Tyre.John Malalas, 2.30 According to Pherecydes of Athens, his first wife was Damno, daughter of Belus, who bore him Phoenix and two daughters, Isaia and Melia, who married Aegyptus and Danaus, respectively; Agenor then fathered Cadmus with Argiope, daughter of the river-god Neilus.Gantz, p. 208; Pherecydes fr. 21 Fowler 2000, p. 289 = FGrHist 3 F 21 = Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius,  Argonautica 3.1177-87f

In the Iliad, however, Europa was clearly a daughter of Phoenix. Either Cadmus or Europa were confirmed as children of Phoenix by the Ehoeae attributed to Hesiod,Hesiod, Ehoiai 19a as cited in Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1358 fr. 1 and Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 12.292 Bacchylides,Bacchylides, 17.31 MoschusMoschus, Europa 7 and various scholia.Scholiast on Plato, Timaeus 24e; on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1186; Malalas, Chronographia 2.30 Cilix and Phineus were also sons of Phoenix according to Pherecydes, who also added an otherwise unknown son named Doryclus.Pherecydes, fr. 86 Fowler 2000, p. 320 = FGrHist 3 F 86

Most later sources listed Cadmus and Cilix as sons of Agenor directly without mentioning Phoenix. On the rare occasions when he was mentioned, Phoenix was listed as the brother of Cadmus and Cilix. Whether he was included as a brother of Agenor or as a son, his role in mythology was limited to inheriting his father's kingdom and to becoming the eponym of the . All accounts agreed on a Phoenician king who has several children, including the two sons named Cadmus and Cilix and a daughter named Europa.

A certain Eidothea, wife of Phineus, was called the sister of Cadmus and thus maybe the daughter of Agenor.Scholia on Sophocles, Antigone 989Sir Richard C. Jebb. Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, 966 Taygete, usually one of the Pleiades and mother of Lacedemon by Zeus was also said to be the daughter of Agenor.Dictys Cretensis, 1.9

As Europa could not be found, none of the brothers returned.Apollodorus, 3.1.1; Hyginus, Fabulae 178 Cadmus consulted the oracle of Delphi and was advised to travel until encountering a cow. He was to follow this cow and to found a city where the cow would lie down; this city became Thebes. Cilix searched for her and settled down in Asia Minor. The land was called Cilicia after him.

According to the chronicler John Malalas, when Agenor was about to die, he ordered that all the land he had conquered be divided among his three sons. Phoenix took Tyre and its hinterland, and called the country Phoenicia after himself. Similarly, Syros call the country allotted to him Syria. Likewise, Cilix called the latitudes allotted to him Cilicia.Malalas, Chronographia 2.31

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