Antenor Antenor Amyntor Category="Ancient Athenians"Category="Ancient Greek sculptors"Category="People who fought in the Trojan War"Antenor was an Athenian sculptor, of the latter part of the 6th century BC.

He was the creator of the joint statues of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, set up by the Athenians on the expulsion of Hippias. These statues were carried away by Xerxes I of Persia during the Greco-Persian Wars.

A basis with the signature of Antenor, son of Eumares, has been shown to belong to one of the dedicated female figures of archaic style which have been found on the Acropolis, Athens.

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Mythological namesake

In Greek mythology, Antenor was a son of King Dymas and husband of Theano, and one of the wisest of the Trojan elders and counsellors. During the Trojan War, he was a councilor of King Priam. He advised his fellow-townsmen to send Helen back to the Greeks, and showed himself not unfriendly to the Greeks and an advocate of peace. In the later story, according to Dares and Dictys, he was said to have treacherously opened the gates of Troy to the enemy; in return for which, at the general sack of the city, his house, distinguished by a panther's skin at the door, was spared by the victors. Afterwards, according to various versions of the legend, he either rebuilt a city on the site of Troy, or settled at Cyrene, or became the founder of Patavium (currently Padova) (Virgil, Aen. I, 242). He had one son with Theano, Laodamas.

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