Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Antenor.
The gallery
Tomb of Antenor, Padua
Unknown (medieval shrine; classical reception), medieval (tradition ancient)
Padua's Tomba di Antenore — the shrine that claims the Trojan counselor as the city's founder. Homeric prudence becomes Italian foundation myth: Antenor who urged Helen's return sails on as Padua's first father.
Tomba di Antenore
Unknown, medieval
Another view of the Antenor tomb in Padua: stone and legend binding the Iliad's peace-speaker to the Veneto — not the Athenian sculptor Antenor of the Kore, but Priam's elder.
Antenor (Prato della Valle, Padua)
Unknown, modern statue (after classical tradition)
Statue of Antenor among Padua's Prato della Valle worthies — the Trojan hero still named as civic ancestor centuries after Homer seated him at the Scaean Gate.
In play
Iliad
Homer
Homer seats Antenor with Priam's elders and lets him urge the return of Helen — the Trojan counselor of peace in Books 3 and 7.
Antenor (Trojan)
Trojan hero and counselor — husband of Theano, father of many Trojan fighters; later tradition makes him founder of Padua. Not the set of mythological namesakes, nor the sculptor of the Antenor Kore.