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Preugenes

mythical son of Agenor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3563956 ↗
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Preugenes (Ancient Greek: Πρευγένης) was a mythical king of Achaea in Greece. He was a descendant of King Lacedaemon of Sparta, and the son of Agenor. Preugenes was the father of Patreus who founded the city of Patras.

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Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner.

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