Son of Pleuron by Xanthippe, daughter of Dorus, and the second link in the Aetolian succession after the eponym Aetolus. By Epicaste, daughter of his uncle Calydon, he begat Porthaon and Demonice, through whom the line runs on to Oeneus and the heroes of Calydon.1
When Aetolus and Pronoe, daughter of Phorbus, had two sons, Pleuron and Calydon, after whom the cities of Aetolia were named, the elder branch passed to Pleuron, who wedded Xanthippe, daughter of Dorus, and begat a son, Agenor, together with daughters Sterope, Stratonice, and Laophonte. Agenor thus stands one step below the city-eponym, the heir of Pleuron's line.2
Agenor married within the house, taking Epicaste, daughter of his uncle Calydon, and begat Porthaon and Demonice. From Porthaon descends Oeneus and the Calydonian house, while Demonice bore Evenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius to Ares; so Agenor is grandfather to both lines, though he himself does no deed the genealogist records.3
Pausanias preserves a second, older reckoning of Agenor's issue. At the hero-shrine of Pleuron in Sparta he reports that the sons of Tyndareus were descended on their mother's side from Pleuron, for the poet Asius wrote that Thestius, the father of Leda, was the son of Agenor the son of Pleuron. By this line Agenor becomes the bridge to Sparta, set a generation higher above Thestius than the genealogists allow.4
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