A Trojan elder of prudence who sat with Priam and Panthous at the Scaean gates, and in the tumultuous council beside Priam's doors was first to urge that Argive Helen and her treasure be given back to the sons of Atreus.1
Homer sets Antenor among the speakers at the Scaean gates — men who had ceased from battle for old age but poured forth counsel like cicalas on a tree. When Iris came to Helen in the likeness of Laodice, she took the form of Antenor's daughter-in-law, wife of his son Helicaon. In the fierce gathering at Ilios, wise Antenor rose first and told the Trojans and allies to restore Helen and the treasure; Paris answered that the gods had destroyed Antenor's wits if he spoke in earnest.2
When Hector proposed single combat before the ships, he and Antenor drove back in the beauteous car after the lots were drawn. His sons fought in the front ranks: Polybus, goodly Agenor, and young Acamas beside Hector and Polydamas; Archelochus and Acamas led a contingent under Aeneas; Athene once walked the Trojan lines in the likeness of Laodocus, Antenor's son, to find Pandarus. Theano, tamer of horses, daughter of Cisseus, was his wife and priestess of Athene; she reared Pedaeus, his bastard son, as carefully as her own children until Meges slew him at Troy.3
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