Antenor : a counsellor of Troy who, during the siege, hosted the Greek envoys & advised his king to return of Helen to them. This was seen by Trojans as traitorous.
... eunuchs who suffer Antenor Rising unharmed in the agora. Are there not stones in the city? Surely the steel grows dear in the land when a traitor can flourish." Calm like a god or a summit Antenor stood in the uproar. But as he gazed on his soul came memory dimming the vision; For he beheld his past and the agora crowded and cheering, Passionate, full of delight while Antenor spoke to the people... indignant with Fortune. Calm from his seat Antenor arose as a wrestler arises, Tamer of beasts in the cage of the lions, eyeing the monsters Brilliant, tawny of mane, and he knows if his courage waver, Falter his eye or his nerve be surprised by the gods that are hostile, Death will leap on him there in the crowded helpless arena. Fearless Antenor arose, and a murmur swelled in the meeting Cruel... yield lest they wake and behold in the dawn-light All Poseidon whitening lean to the west in his waters Thick with the sails of the Greeks departing beaten to Hellas. Who is it calls? Antenor the statesman, Antenor the patriot, Thus who loves his country and worships the soil of his fathers! Which of you loves like him Troya? which of the children of heroes Yearns for the touch of a yoke on his ...
... assembly of the Trojan senators is called—"this last of Ilion's sessions"—and Antenor the aged statesman counsels a policy of lying low and secret preparation. Laocon and Paris, however, counsel defiance as Moloch does in Paradise Lost, and so the die is cast. There are partings on the eve of the battle—Anchises and Aeneas, Antenor and Halamus, Paris and Helen, Paris and Cassandra. Meanwhile Achilles has ...
... where the thought or the image hurls upon us with a wide yet controlled grandeur as in Homer at his most energetically inspired. The impact, in one manner, is at its effective best in the harangues by Antenor, Laocoön and Paris in the Trojan assembly. These are masterpices of political oratory that yet miss nothing of the poetic in the political and of the personal in the public, whether it is the old statesman ...
... of Paradise Lost, the speeches in the Trojan Assembly, as also those of the Greek chieftains, present forcefully divergent attitudes that have a universal currency. In Troy, the elder statesman Antenor and his son Halamus advise the acceptance of Achilles' offer, but the hawks - Laocoon, Penthesilea, Paris - carry the day. Rebuffed by Troy, Achilles sends an insolent message to Agamemnon, and the ...
... Achilles. The Small, son of Oileus and called the Locrian, boastful in character and reputed to be the fastest of the Greeks next to Achilles, figures as alive in Ilion. Gades, mentioned in Antenor's speech, is the old name for Cadiz on the south-west coast of Spain and marked for the ancients the farthest point beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, on either side of which were the Mounts Calpe and ...
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