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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANTILOCHUS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 127 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANTILOCHUS , in
Greek
 
legend
 , son of
Nestor
 , king of Pylos. One of the suitors of Helen, he accompanied his father to the Trojan War. He was distinguished for his beauty, swiftness of foot, and skill as a charioteer; though the youngest among the
Greek
  princes, he commanded the Pylians in the war, and performed many deeds of valour. He was a favourite of the gods, and an intimate friend of Achilles, to whom he was commissioned to announce the death of Patroclus. When his father was attacked by Memnon, he saved his
life
  at the sacrifice of his own (
Pindar
 , Pyth. vi. 28), thus fulfilling an oracle which had bidden him " beware of an Ethiopian." His death was avenged by Achilles. According to other accounts, he was slain by
Hector (Hyginus, Fab. 113), or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with Achilles (Dares Phrygius 34). His ashes, with those of Achilles and Patroclus, were deposited in a mound on the promontory of Sigeum, where the inhabitants of Ilium offered sacrifice to the dead heroes (Odyssey, xxiv. 72;
Strabo
  xiii. p. 596). In the Odyssey (xi. 468) the three friends are represented as united in the underworld and walking together in the
fields
  of asphodel; according to Pausanias (iii. 19) they dwell together in the
island
  of Leuke.


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