Antenor was one of the Elders of Troy at the time of the Trojan War. During the sack of Troy, he was spared by the Achaeans, either because he advocated peace and the restoration of Helen, or because he betrayed the city. After the war, he came to northern Italy where he founded Padua. The fall of Troy, by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769). ... Northern Italy comprises of two areas belonging to NUTS level 1: North-West (Nord-Ovest): Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria North-East (Nord-Est): Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley are regions with a... Padua, Italy, (Italian: IPA: , Latin: Patavium, Venetian: ) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, the economic and communications hub of the region. ...

The conflict

When the seducer Paris took with him gorgeous Helen from Sparta to Troy, he did not imagine the size of the conflagration he was about to cause, nor did he fear any consequences; for women had been abducted before and no one had gone to war for their sake. See List of King Priams children Statue of Paris in the British Museum This article is about the prince of Troy. ... For modern day Sparta, see Sparti (municipality). ...

But this time, for reasons known to the gods and in part also to mortals, a huge coalition was formed by many kingdoms throughout the whole of Hellas, determined to sail to Troy and to obtain, either through persuasive words or through harsh force, the restoration of the Spartan queen and the property that the Trojan prince had stolen. Greece, formally called the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. ...

Embassy

Some believe and feel that whereas war arouses enthusiasm, giving opportunity for courage and glory to come forth, peace tends to cause boredom, its demands being less challenging. Yet, war brings death and destruction, and that is why the desire of a peaceful settlement, makes its way even into the hearts of those who are more eager to fight.

For negotiation may sometimes yield the desired results. And so, when the powerful army led by King Agamemnon reached the Troad, Odysseus and Menelaus were sent as ambassadors with the mission of persuading the Trojans to restore Helen and the Spartan property. This article is about a character in Greek mythology. ... Map of the Troas The Troas (Troad) is an ancient region in the northwestern part of Anatolia, bounded by the Hellespont to the northwest, the Aegean Sea to the west, and separated from the rest of Anatolia by the massif that forms Mount Ida. ... For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). ... Menelaus regains Helen, detail of an Attic red-figure crater, ca. ...

Antenor 1's defends the ambassadors

This embassy failed, and the Trojans, who had summoned an assembly, not only refused to restore Helen and the property, but also threatened to kill the envoys. It is then that Antenor, whose childhood and young years have not been preserved in any known record, comes into the story already as an aged man, intervening to protect the ambassadors and thereby averting what is normally regarded as a particularly treacherous crime. He also wished to restore Helen, as Odysseus later recalled:

"I was sent also as a bold ambassador to Ilium's stronghold and visited and entered the senate-house of lofty Troy. It was still full of heroes ... I pleaded the common cause which Greece had entrusted to me, I denounced Paris, demanded the return of Helen and the booty, and I prevailed on Priam and Antenor who sided with Priam. But Paris and his brothers and his companions in the robbery scarce restrained their impious hands from me ..." [Odysseus to the Achaeans. Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.196] For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation). ... Disambiguation: This article is about the poem Metamorphoses written by the poet Ovid. ...

Proposal of Antimachus

It was Antimachus, who, being the most eloquent in the Trojan assembly, defeated all proposals to give back Helen to Menelaus, and also demanded that the envoys be executed. On account of this atrocious recommendation to the assembly, Antimachus's sons Pisander and Hippolochus lost their lives. For later, when Agamemnon chanced to have them at his mercy in the battlefield, he did not spare them as they begged—although they offered rich treasures as ransom—, but instead slew them, so that they would pay for their father's foul outrage. Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. ... Hippolochus was an ancient Greek writer, a student of Theophrastus, who addressed to his fellow-student Lynceus of Samos a description of a wedding feast in Macedon in the early 3rd century BC. The bridegroom was a certain Caranus, probably a relative of the Caranus who had been a companion...

Antenor 1's picture of the ambassadors

Later, when Antenor recalled the episode with the ambassadors, whom he had received as guests in his own house, he described Menelaus as taller than Odysseus and as a man of fluent but short speech; yet, he added, Odysseus was the more royal when they both were seated, and by far the more eloquent.

He insisted more than once

Antenor was of the opinion that to restore Helen was the proper thing to do, and years later, during the war, he still caused trouble by letting the Trojan assemblies know what he thought:

"Trojans, Dardanians and allies ... hear a proposal which I feel compelled to make. Let us have done now, and give Helen back to the Atrides, along with all her property. By fighting on as we are doing, we have made perjurers of ourselves. No good that I can see will ever come of that ..." [Antenor to the Trojan assembly. Homer, Iliad 7.347]

Paris' opinion about Antenor 1's brains

But such ideas were too much for the Trojans, and particularly for Paris, who, although willing to restore the Spartan property, had no intention of giving up whom he called his wife; and on hearing Antenor's proposal Paris commented:

"... the god themselves must have addled your brains ..." [Paris to Antenor 1. Homer, Iliad 7.356]

For the younger often regard as pusillanimous and confused those whom Old Age has estranged from the charms of war and love, whereas those who are older, loving words more than action and seeing themselves as wiser, not seldom think that the younger are possessed by some kind of folly that might easily cause their ruin.

The Elders of Troy talk rather than act

So, while the Trojan youths mainly spent their time attending love and war, as youth often does, the Elders of Troy, such as Panthous, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, Ucalegon and Antenor himself, spent their time talking; for Old Age brings action to an end. Yet the welfare of the state not seldom requires their counsel, and that is why King Priam, himself an old man at the time of the Trojan War, could sit in conference with these men. In Greek mythology, there were at least three different people named Thymoetes. ... In Greek mythology, Lampus was a son of King Laomedon of Troy. ... Clytius is the name of many people in Greek mythology: A son of Laomedon in Homers Iliad, book 10. ... In Greek mythology, Hicetaon was a son of King Laomedon of Troy. ... King Priam killed by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, detail of an Attic red-figure amphora In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Πρίαμος, Priamos) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, and youngest son of Laomedon. ...

And when a truce was agreed, so that Paris and Menelaus could attempt, by fighting in single combat, to put an end to the conflict, Antenor mounted King Priam's chariot and came with him to the plain where the duel was going to take place.

The Elders' chat

But even if desire for physical action had long ago deserted the Elders, they could still understand and appreciate what motivates it. That is why, on seeing Helen coming along, they could comment:

"Who on earth could blame the Trojan and Achaean men-at-arms for suffering so long for such a woman's sake? Indeed, she is the very image of an immortal goddess."

Yet as their years had made them acquainted with restraint and moderation, they added:

"All the same, and lovely as she is, let her sail home and not stay her to vex us and our children after us." [Antenor and the Trojan Elders chatting among themselves. Homer, Iliad 3.155]

Buried Trojans

Helen did sail back home to Sparta, but not before the Trojans were utterly defeated and the city laid in ruins. She was restored to her husband Menelaus, who killed her second Trojan husband Deiphobus after the death of Paris. In Greek mythology, Deiphobus was a son of Priam and Hecuba. ...

The massacre of the Trojans occurred by night, and many were surprised and slain in their beds, both soldiers and civilians; for the victors, having little control over their own violence, gave themselves to rape, executions and outrages of all kinds. Antenor himself buried many of those who did not survive the devastating rage, among which King Priam's daughter Polyxena (betrothed to Antenor 's son Eurymachus), who was sacrificed by the Achaeans upon Achilles' grave. For the Christian Saint, please see Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca Polyxena dies by the hand of Neoptolemus on the tomb of Achilles. ... Eurymachus, or Eurýmakhos, an Ithacan nobleman and the son of Polybus, was one of the leading suitors of Penelope in The Odyssey. ... For other uses, see Achilles (disambiguation). ...

His house spared

However, the house of Antenor was respected on account of his friendly attitude towards the Achaeans, and because Odysseus and Menelaus were bound by ties of hospitality to him, established when they came to Troy as envoys.

It is said that during the sack of Troy a leopard's skin was hanged over the entrance of Antenor's house as a sign that his house was to be left unpillaged, and some have believed that Antenor 1 and his sons betrayed the city to the Achaeans, this being the reason why they were spared This article is about the big cat. ...

Comes to Italy and founds famous city

When the Trojan War was over and the city was destroyed, Antenor 1 migrated to Italy accompanied by the Eneti or Heneti, who until then had lived in Paphlagonia, northern Asia Minor.
The Eneti, it is said, crossed over to Thrace after the capture of Troy and the death of their king Pylaemenes, whom Menelaus slew. Paphlagonia was an ancient area on the Black Sea coast of north central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia and Pontus, and separated from Phrygia (later, Galatia) by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak  Thrace (Bulgarian: , Greek: , Attic Greek: ThrāíkÄ“ or ThrēíkÄ“, Latin: , Turkish: ) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. ...

Antenor and his surviving children settled at the recess of the Adriatic, and subsequently founded Padua in Italy, some time before Aeneas reached Dido's Carthage. These Trojans under Antenor, along with the Eneti, conquered the territory which is between the inmost bay of the Adriatic and the Alps, expelling the Eugani, who dwelt there. The region has been called Veneto and the people Veneti; and as of AD 2000, there is still a city, in that Italian district, called Venice, the name of which derives from the Eneti. The Adriatic Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Apennine peninsula (Italy) from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. ... Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598. ... Aeneas recounting the Trojan War to Dido. ... For other uses, see Carthage (disambiguation). ... Alp redirects here. ... Veneto or Venetia, is one of the 20 regions of Italy. ... For other uses, see Venice (disambiguation). ...

Another with identical name

Antenor is one of the SUITORS OF PENELOPE.

Family

• Parentage: Aesyetes & Cleomestra

• Theano:

1. Archelochus
2. Acamas
3. Glaucus
4. Helicaon
5. Laodocus
6. Polybus
7. Agenor
8. Iphidamas
9. Coon
10. Laodamas
11. Demoleon
12. Eurymachus

Crino Theano, daughter of Cisseus, was priestess of Athena at Troy. In the Iliad Archelochus was a son of Antenor and along with his brother Acamas and Aeneas, shared the command of the Dardanians fighting on the side of the Trojans. ... In Greek mythology, Acamas (unwearying) was the son of Phaedra and Theseus. ... In Greek mythology, Glaucus (shiny, bright or bluish-green) was the name of several different figures, including one God. ... In Greek mythology Helicaon is the son of Antenor and Theano. ... Polybus was a famous physician. ... In history and Greek mythology, Agenor (which means very manly) was a king of Tyre. ... Coon can refer to: an abbreviation for raccoon the Maine Coon, a breed of domestic cat an ethnic slur used in American, British and Australian English for people of African or aboriginal Australian descent a brand of cheese in Australia Coon Carnival, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South... In Greek mythology, Laódamas referred to three different people. ... Eurymachus, or Eurýmakhos, an Ithacan nobleman and the son of Polybus, was one of the leading suitors of Penelope in The Odyssey. ... This article is about the mythological Theano. ... In Greek mythology, Cisseus was a Thracian king and father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, as related in Homers Iliad. ...

1. Pedaeus