The Descendants of Agenor (page 196 lower)

Chapter 5: The Line of Deukalion

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Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 10a.58-65 – Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, p. 229, ed. Solmsen. 3d ed. Oxford 1990.

ApB 1.7.5 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)

Calyce and Aethlius had a son Endymion who led Aeolians from Thessaly and founded Elis. But some say that he was a son of Zeus.  Greek Text

Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 22 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 12, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.

Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 10a.50 MW – Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, p. 228, ed. Solmsen. 3d ed. Oxford 1990.

ApB 1.7.7 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)

And Agenor, son of Pleuron, married Epicaste, daughter of Calydon, and begat Porthaon and Demonice.  Greek Text

Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 22 MW 

See above

ApB 1.7.7 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)

and Demonice, who had Evenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius by Ares.  Greek Text

Homer, Iliad 9.557

Marpessa of the fair ankles, child of Evenus, and of Idas that was mightiest of men that were then upon the face of earth; who also took his bow to face the king [560] Phoebus Apollo for the sake of the fair-ankled maid.  Greek Text

Simonides 563 PMGPoetae Melici Graeci, p. 291, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.

Bakchylides fr 20A SM – Bacchylidis Carmina cum fragmentis, pp. 93-96, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1970.

Scholion bT at Homer, Iliad 9.557 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 3, pp. 411-12, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.

Greek Text

Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 26 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 16-18, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967. 

ApB 1.7.10 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library)

Thestius had daughters and sons by Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea: the daughters were Althaea, Leda, Hypermnestra, and the males were Iphiclus, Evippus, Plexippus, and Eurypylus.  Greek Text

Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 25 – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 15-16, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967. 

Asios fr 6 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 128, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

Pausanias 13.13.8  The children of Tyndareos were discendents of Pleuron on their mother’s side; in fact Asios in his poem says that Leda’s father was the son of Agenor who was the son of Pleuron. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

Pherekydes 3F9 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 61, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957.

Schol. Apoll. Rhod. I 1212:  Pherekydes says that in Book 2 Leda and Althaia are born to Thestios by Laophonte, daughter of Pleuron.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)

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