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  Agenor - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
Some sources state that Agenor was the son of Poseidon and Libya; these accounts refer to a brother named Belus.
Sources differ also as to Agenor's children; he is sometimes said to have been the father of Cadmus, Europa, Cilix, Phoenix, and Thasus.
Either Cadmus or Europa are confirmed as children of Phoenix by the Ehoeae attributed to Hesiod and by Bacchylides and by various scholiae.
paganpedia.mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Agenor   (399 words)

  
 Agenor Essays| Agenor Dissertations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whether he is included as a brother of Agenor or as a son, his role in mythology is limited to inheriting his father's kingdom and to becoming the eponym of the Phoenicians.
In the Iliad Agenor was a Trojan soldier and son of Antenor.
Agenor felt ashamed that he was fleeing from a man who was supposedly just as mortal as anyone so he turned to face Achilles.
www.classics.degree-essays.com /agenor-essays.html   (827 words)

  
 Matala & Crete general information
Some say that the father of this Phoenician princess was Agenor, but others say that it was Phoenix, who some claim was her brother.
Agenor was by birth an Egyptian, but he departed to Phoenicia and reigned there.
However, some say that the Bull who carried Europa was the same Cretan Bull that Heracles enjoined in one of his labours, which in turn could be the same Bull, that was sent by Poseidon to King Minos of Crete, and that later, consorting with the king wife Pasiphae, became the progenitor of the Minotaur.
www.matala.gr /matala_crete_info/crete_country_info/25.html   (884 words)

  
 Europa, the Phoenician Princess
According to some Agenor is the son of Poseidon and Libya, but others say that his parents were Belus and Anchinoe.
If Phoenix would be considered to be the father of Europa, everything would amount to the same, because Phoenix, after whom Phoenicia is called, is said to be the son either of Agenor or of Belus, and we would, also in this way, arrive to Io.
However, some say that the Bull who carried Europa was the same Cretan Bull that Heracles enjoined in one of his labours, which in turn could be the same Bull, that was sent by Poseidon to King Minos of Crete, and that later, consorting with the king's wife Pasiphae, became the progenitor of the Minotaur.
www.phoenicia.org /europa.html   (1001 words)

  
 Phoenicians, Phoenix legend, history
Zeus, the King of the gods according to Greek mythology, saw Europa, the beautiful daughter of the Phoenician king of Tyre ‘Agenor’, as she was gathering flowers by the Mediterranean sea and fell in love with her.
The Phoenix, the firebird that comes from Paradise, lives five hundred years feeding on aromatic herbs and filling the air with its heavenly voice, before it perishes and burns in fire.
However, like the Phoenix, the survivors always rose from the ruins and rebuilt their homeland in a manner even more magnificent than it used to be, while the invaders left, no matter how long they captured the land for.
www.lgic.org /en/phoenicians.php   (1596 words)

  
  Phoenix Benu - Crystalinks
In ancient Egyptian mythology and in myths derived from it, the Phoenix is a mythical sacred firebird.
At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises.
Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.
www.crystalinks.com /phoenix.html   (858 words)

  
  Agenor - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sources differ also as to Agenor's children; he is sometimes said to have been the father of Cadmus, Europa, Cilix, Phoenix, and Thasus.
In the Iliad (14.321–22) Europa is clearly a daughter of Phoenix.
Either Cadmus or Europa are confirmed as children of Phoenix by the Ehoeae attributed to Hesiod and by Bacchylides and by various scholiae.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Agenor_and_Phoenix   (431 words)

  
 Phoenix (Iliad)
In the Greek epic Iliad, Phoenix is one of Achilles' men who goes with Odysseus and Ajax the great to urge him to re-enter battle, giving the most passionate speech of the three.
A different Phoenix in Greek mythology was a son of Agenor and Telephassa.
When his sister, Electra[?] was kidnapped, Phoenix and his brothers, Cadmus and Cilix went searching for her.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ph/Phoenix_(Iliad).html   (112 words)

  
 The Phoenix, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
It is from the pictures that they have described the Phoenix, saying that it had the appearance of an eagle, both in shape and size, and that his plumage was partly golden, and partly red.
It is said that the Phoenix, carrying his father encased in myrrh, comes from Arabia to the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis, where he buries him.
When the Phoenix has lived for five hundred years, he builds a nest at the top of a palm-tree, which he covers over with cassia-bark, spikes of nard, cinnamon, and myrrh—all of them highly aromatic plants.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/PhoenixTheBird.html   (1120 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 343 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Phoenix yielded to the request of his mother, and Amyntor, who discovered it, cursed him, and prayed that he might never be blessed with any offspring.
For this purpose Phoenix was believed to come from Arabia, and to make an egg of myrrh as large as possible ; this egg he then hollowed out and put into it his father, closing it up carefully, and the egg was believed then to be of exactly the weight as before.
Phoenix at this time held the important command of the Hellespontine Phrygia, on which account Antigonus hastened to send an army against him under the command of his younger son Philippus (Id. xx.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2677.html   (1100 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Agenor
In Greek mythology, Agenor ("very manly") was King of Tyros[?] and son of Poseidon and Eurynome.
Agenor, meanwhile, sent Europa's brothers, Cadmus, Phoenix and Cilix to find her.
Phoenix searched for his sister and founded Phoenicia.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ag/Agenor   (171 words)

  
 PHOENIX
When the Phoenix feels its death approaching every 500 years, it would build a nest and set it on fire, and was consumed by flames.
The new Phoenix then embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of myrrh and flew with it to the City of the Sun.
The Phoenix was the symbol of the great civilization of Phoenician people who lived in the East Mediterranean around 4000 BC and spread throughout the Mediterranean area, which was then known as the Phoenician Sea.
www.phoenix-c-g.com /text/thelegend.htm   (435 words)

  
 Phoenix - The Symbol of Rebirth presented in Culture section
The phoenix supposedly burns itself in his nest on the hill (sunset) and is being reborn the next morning.
In early Christian tradition the phoenix was adopted as being resurrection and immortality.
The phoenix makes a coffin and fills it with fine smelling spices, then dies where the stink of corruption is (effaced) by (agreeable) smells.
www.newsfinder.org /site/more/phoenix_the_symbol_of_rebirth   (1441 words)

  
 Cadmus
Cadmus was the son of Agenor and the brother of Europa.
After Zeus kidnapped Europa, Agenor ordered her brothers -- Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix -- to search for her, instructing them not to return until they had found her.
Cadmus consulted the oracle at Delphi and was told to follow a cow that he would find near the oracle; where the cow lay down to rest, he should found a city.
www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cadmus.html   (311 words)

  
 Intro to Oedipus Rex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Agenor was the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Libya (yes, the land mass!
Personified as an individual, was ravished by the god Poseidon to whom she bore twin sons, Belus and Agenor.
By his wife Telephassa (or Argiope), Agenor had one daughter, named Europa, and five sons: Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix, Thasus, and Phineus (according to Homer, Europa was the daughter of Phoenix).
home.earthlink.net /~mazz747/id24.html   (1347 words)

  
 Europa, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Agenor 1 was by birth an Egyptian, but he departed to Phoenicia and reigned there.
According to some Agenor 1 is the son of Poseidon and Libya, but others affirm that his parents were Belus 1 and Anchinoe.
If Phoenix 1 would be considered to be the father of Europa, everything would amount to the same, because Phoenix 1, after whom Phoenicia is called, is said to be the son either of Agenor 1 or of Belus 1, and we would, also in this way, arrive to Io.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Europa.html   (833 words)

  
 Europa, the Phoenician Princess
Some say that the father of this Phoenician princess was Agenor, but others say that it was Phoenix, who some claim was her brother.
Agenor was by birth an Egyptian, but he departed to Phoenicia and reigned there.
If Phoenix would be considered to be the father of Europa, everything would amount to the same, because Phoenix, after whom Phoenicia is called, is said to be the son either of Agenor or of Belus, and we would, also in this way, arrive to Io.
phoenicia.org /europa.html   (1001 words)

  
 The Dragon's Teeth
Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, the three sons of King Agenor, and their little sister Europa (who was a very beautiful child), were at play together near the seashore in their father's kingdom of Phoenicia.
King Agenor, their father, was the ruler of the whole country; but he loved his little daughter Europa better than his kingdom, or than all his other children, or than anything else in the world.
The very first decree of state which King Phoenix issued was, that, if a maiden happened to arrive in the kingdom, mounted on a snow-white bull, and calling herself Europa, his subjects should treat her with the greatest kindness and respect, and immediately bring her to the palace.
www.ecsis.net /fantasy/RealmsFantasy/Dragon/Teeth.html   (4553 words)

  
 Phoenix (Iliad) at AllExperts
In Homer's Iliad, Phoenix is one of the Myrmidons led by Achilles, who along with Odysseus and Ajax urges Achilles to re-enter battle, giving the most passionate speech of the three.
As Aeneas is searching his fallen Troy for his wife Creusa, he glimpes Phoenix and Odysseus guarding their loot in Priam's palace.
A different Phoenix in Greek mythology was a son of Agenor and either brother or father to Cadmus.
en.allexperts.com /e/p/ph/phoenix_(iliad).htm   (187 words)

  
 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Agenor
Some sources state that Phoenix was Agenor's brother (and Belus' son); and it was Phoenix who was the father of these individuals.
In the Iliad (14.321andndash;22) Europa is clearly a daughter of Phoenix.
Europa's father, meanwhile, sent Europa's brothers, Cadmus and Cilix in search of her along with other brothers in some versions: Phineus or Thasus (and of course Phoenix in the versions where the Cadmus' father is Agenor).
www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=agenor   (393 words)

  
 Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Dragon's Teeth
Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, the three sons of King Agenor, and their little sister Europa (who was a very beautiful child), were at play together near the seashore in their father's kingdom of Phoenicia.
King Agenor, their father, was the ruler of the whole country; but he loved his little daughter Europa better than his kingdom, or than all his other children, or than anything else in the world.
The very first decree of state which King Phoenix issued was, that, if a maiden happened to arrive in the kingdom, mounted on a snow-white bull, and calling herself Europa, his subjects should treat her with the greatest kindness and respect, and immediately bring her to the palace.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.6/bookid.2111   (9607 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Agenor Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In history and Greek mythology, Agenor was a king of Tyre.
Family Some sources state that Agenor was the son of Poseidon and Libya ; these accounts refer to a brother named Be...
In the Iliad (14.321–22) Europa is clearly a daughter of Phoenix.
www.ipedia.com /agenor.html   (452 words)

  
 Cadmus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
His father is either Agenor, or Phoenix, son of Agenor.
Project Cadmus is a fictional government genetic engineering project in the DC Comics Universe.
Cadmus was the son of Agenor and the brother of Europa.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/SRPage.aspx?search=Cadmus   (244 words)

  
 Phoenix Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, children of Agenor by Telephassa; Some say Europa was a daughter of Phoenix;
Adonis was a son of Phoenix by Alphesiboea;
Phineus, son of Phoenix, son of Agenor, by Cassiopea;
www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i324Sources.htm   (44 words)

  
 Geographia: Asia and Africa
Agenor sent all his sons to search for their sister, after her abduction.
Phoenicia was named after Phoenix, son of Agenor and Telephassa or Argiope, and brother of Cadmus and Europa.
Agenor, son of Libya and Poseidon, founded and ruled the city of Sidon in Phoenicia (Canaan).
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/asia.html   (2948 words)

  
 Insula Thassos - Mitologie
Expeditia a fost condusa de fii lui, Phoenix, Cilix si Cadmus (fratii Europei) si Thasos (care a fost fie baiatul, fie nepotul lui Agenor - astazi este imposibil sa intelegem al cui fiu era Thasos, intrucat legendele despre el sunt fie foarte vechi, fie nu sunt suficient de exacte).
Regele Agenor le-a ordonat sa o caute pe Europa in lung si-n lat si sa nu se intoarca decat daca o gasesc.
Si in timp ce Zeus si Europa se bucurau de dragostea lor in Creta, fiii lui Agenor mergeau pana la capatul pamantului pentru a-si gasi sora.
www.thassos.ro /index.php?content=3&dreapta=3   (557 words)

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