Agenor, son of Pleuron

Agenor, son of Pleuron

Agenor (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγήνωρ) was a son of Pleuron and Xanthippe, and grand­son of Aetolus.Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Agenor (4) | 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 ] Epicaste, the daughter of Calydon, became by him the mother of Porthaon and Demonice. [Apollodorus, i. 7. § 7] According to Pausanias, Thestius, the father of Leda, is likewise a son of this Agenor. [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" iii. 13. § 5]

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