Antenor (mythology)

Antenor represented in the reconstruction of Carl Robert of the fresco of Polignoto that represented the Iliupersis.

In Greek mythology, Antenor (in ancient Greek, Ἀντήνωρ - Antếnôr) was an adviser to King Priam of Troy who during the siege of the city advocated a peaceful solution between the Greeks and the Trojans.

Antenor supported the solution of the conflict with a confrontation between Paris and Menelaus, and his house was not looted during the confrontation.

He was a Trojan character who prophesied that the Achaeans would recover Helen of Troy. Among the Trojans, he fulfilled a function similar to that of Nestor among the Achaeans: the figure of a wise, experienced, and prudent old man.

He married Theano, with whom he had Acamante.

Antenor is the mythical founder of Venice and Padua.

Eponyms

(2207) Antenor, a Trojan Jupiter asteroid discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, is named after him.