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Antenor

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Antenor
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Individual
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Scaean gates2 observations
·Direct

Antenor was seated by the Scaean gates.

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The two sages, Ucalegon and Antenor, elders of the people, were seated by the Scaean gates, with Priam, Panthous, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the race of Mars.
·Direct

Antenor passed through the Scaean gates during the completed chariot journey onto the plain.

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bade his followers yoke the horses, and they made all haste to do so. He mounted the chariot, gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor took his seat beside him; they then drove through the Scaean gates on to the plain.
plain of Troy1 observation
·Direct

Antenor reached the plain in the completed chariot journey.

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bade his followers yoke the horses, and they made all haste to do so. He mounted the chariot, gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor took his seat beside him; they then drove through the Scaean gates on to the plain.
Troy1 observation
·Direct

Antenor reached Ilius in the completed return journey.

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On this he laid the two lambs on his chariot and took his seat. He gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor sat beside him; the two then went back to Ilius.
·Direct

Antenor speaks at the Trojans’ council on the acropolis by Priam’s palace.

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the Trojans held a council, angry and full of discord, on the acropolis by the gates of King Priam’s palace; and wise Antenor spoke

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·Direct

Antenor is one of the two sages and elders and is among the men collectively described as too old to fight and fluent orators, sitting on the tower like delicately chirping cicales.

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The two sages, Ucalegon and Antenor, elders of the people, were seated by the Scaean gates, with Priam, Panthous, Thymoetes, Lampus, Clytius, and Hiketaon of the race of Mars. These were too old to fight, but they were fluent orators, and sat on the tower like cicales that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood
·Remembered

Antenor remembers receiving Ulysses and Menelaus as envoys in his house and knowing both by sight and conversation.

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Ulysses once came here as envoy about yourself, and Menelaus with him. I received them in my own house, and therefore know both of them by sight and conversation
·Direct

Antenor rides beside Priam and advances with him at measured pace between the armies.

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Antenor took his seat beside him; they then drove through the Scaean gates on to the plain. When they reached the ranks of the Trojans and Achaeans they left the chariot, and with measured pace advanced into the space between the hosts
·Direct

Antenor counsels giving up Argive Helen and her wealth to the sons of Atreus, judging that Trojan violation of the covenants prevents prosperity.

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wise Antenor spoke. ‘Hear me,’ he said, ‘Trojans, Dardanians, and allies, that I may speak even as I am minded. Let us give up Argive Helen and her wealth to the sons of Atreus, for we are now fighting in violation of our solemn covenants, and shall not prosper till we have done as I say

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·Direct
Antenor
·Direct
son of Antenor
·Direct
the three sons of Antenor
·Direct
Archelochus son of Antenor
·Direct
son to Antenor
·Remembered
Coon son of Antenor
·Direct
son to Antenor
·Direct
noble Agenor son of Antenor

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Book 2 · Passage 70

The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida. He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Archilochus and Acamas, both skilled in all the arts of war.