Antēnor

, a Trojan prince related to Priam. It is said that, during the Trojan war, he always kept a secret correspondence with the Greeks, and chiefly with Menelaus and Uly es. In the council of Priam, Homer introduces him as advising the Trojans to restore Helen and conclude the war. He advised Uly es to carry away the Trojan palladium, and encouraged the Greeks to make the wooden horse which, at his persuasion, was brought into the city of Troy by a breach made in the walls. Æneas has been accused of being a partner of his guilt, and the night that Troy was taken, they had a number of Greeks stationed at the doors of their houses to protect them from harm. After the destruction of his country, Antenor migrated into Italy near the Adriatic, where he built the town of Padua. His children were also concerned in the Trojan war, and displayed much valour against the Greeks. Their names were Polybius, Acamas, Agenor, and, according to others, Polydamas and Helicaon. Livy , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .— Pliny , bk. 3 , ch. 13 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 1 , li. 242 .— Tacitus , bk. 16 , ch. 21 .— Homer , Iliad , bks. 3, 7, 8, 11.— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 13 .— Dictys Cretensis , bk. 5 .— Dares Phrygius , ch. 6 .— Strabo , bk. 13 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 1 .— Pausanias , bk. 10 , ch. 27 .――A statuary. Pausanias. ――A Cretan, who wrote a history of his country. Ælian.