Archelochus
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Family
Archelochus was the brother of Crino,[4] Acamas,[5][6] Agenor,[7][8] Antheus,[9] Coön,[10] Demoleon,[11] Eurymachus,[12] Glaucus,[13] Helicaon,[14] Iphidamas,[15] Laodamas,[16][17] Laodocus,[18] Medon,[19] Polybus[7][20] and Thersilochus[19]
Mythology
According to the Iliad, when the Trojan army was broken up into five divisions Archelochus was one of the three leaders of his division along with the other two Dardanian leaders.[21] Later in the poem he is killed by Ajax son of Telamon, when the latter throws a spear at Polydamas but it misses the intended target and instead hits Archelochus in the neck:
- "Swiftly then he [Ajax] cast with his bright spear at the other, even as he was drawing back. And Polydamas himself escaped black fate, springing to one side; but Archelochus, son of Antenor, received the spear; for to him the gods purposed death. Him the spear smote at the joining of head and neck on the topmost joint of the spine, and it shore off both the sinews. And far sooner did his head and mouth and nose reach the earth as he fell, than his legs and knees."[22]
Notes
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.27.4
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 134
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
- ^ Homer, Iliad 20.395
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.27.3
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 4.7; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.27.3
- ^ Homer, Iliad 3.123
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.516
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.87
- ^ a b Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59
- ^ Homer, Iliad 12.100
- ^ Homer, Iliad 461–469
References
- 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.
- Dictys Cretensis, 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 the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.