Antilochus of Pylos
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In Greek mythology, Antilochus (/ænˈtɪləkəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀντίλοχος Antílokhos) was a prince of Pylos and one of the Achaeans in the Trojan War.
Family
Antilochus was the son of King
.Mythology
One of the
the gods and a friend of Achilles, to whom he was commissioned to announce the death of Patroclus.[4]
When his father Nestor was attacked by
Leuke.[4]
Among the Trojans he killed were Melanippus, Ablerus, Atymnius, Phalces, Echepolos, and Thoon, although Hyginus records that he only killed two Trojans.[13] At the funeral games of Patroclus, Antilochus finished second in the chariot race and third in the foot race.
Antilochus left behind in
Notes
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 3.451–52
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.9
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.457–8
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Pindar, Pythian Odes 6.28
- ^ "Cypria - Livius". www.livius.org.
- Fabulae113
- ^ Dares Phrygius, 34
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 24.72
- ^ Strabo, 13
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.468
- ^ Pausanias, 3.19
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 114
- ^ Pausanias, 2.18.7–9
References
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- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Dares Phrygius, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at theio.com
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Homer, .
- ISBN 0-674-99104-4.
- Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Antilochus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 126–127.
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