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PHGNICIAN KINSMEN OF BRUTUS IO1

“ Pheenician.”’ And he was so celebrated that he received a statue as a demi-god from the Phcenicians at Tyre.?

Antenor’s descendants and their relationships to Brutus are displayed in the following genealogical Table? :—

Aisuétao or Aisyetes of the ancient Troy barrow

| ANTENOR Alkathoos

married Theand mar. Hippodameia, daughter of Anchises, father of Aineas.

Helikaon or Koon Agenor Polybius, Akamas, and Iphidamus mar. Priam’s daughter. “ Wing of the Slain at Troy. Slain at Troy. Phoenicians,’’ mar. Telephasia, | | i, =I. |

Europa Kadmos Phoinix Kilix (Thasos) of Tyreand ‘“‘ King of the of Sidon of Crete. In Pheenicians” of and Tyre. Silicia.

Crete she was Illyria, Tyre, Caria,

mother of Thebes, etc.m. Har-

Minos.? monia and had son Polydorus of Thebes.*

The four clans, therefore, at Gades, of the descendants of the banished Trojans who accompanied the exiled Antenor, were presumably the descendants of the four sons of his son “ King Agenor-the-Pheenician,”’ who was so famous a sailor that he was called ‘“‘ Son of Poseidon or Neptune.” These sons are seen in the Table to be Kadmos or “* Cadmus,” Phoinix, Kilix and Thasos, the first two of which are usually called by ancient classic writers, ‘‘ Phoenicians,’ as well as their father. And incidentally it is seen that the famous King Minos of Crete was also a Phoenician. It seems possible that Duke Corineus, through his Homeric title of “* Koronus Kaineus ’ was a descendant of Antenor’s eldest son Koon (see

1 See fragments of Dius and Menander preserved by Josephus, Contr. Ap I, 17 and 18; also Arrian, Emp. Alexander, 2, 24.

*I have compiled this Table from the references in Homer's //iad, Herodotus, Strabo, Pausanias, ete.

* Herodotus, i, 2 and 173; +4, 45- * Hesiod, Theogony, 935-