Antilochus
Greek · quartigod · trojan war · Recorded classification
Quartigod son of the demigod Nestor of Pylos by an unregistered mother (named Anaxibia daughter of Cratieus in Apollod. 1.9.9, or Eurydice daughter of Clymenus in Hom. Od. 3.451-452); tier = (0.5 + 0)/2 = 0.25. The swift-footed young Pylian champion, dear to Achilles, who drew first Achaean blood at Troy and died defending his father Nestor against Memnon — the proverbial exemplum of filial devotion — and was buried in the same mound as Achilles and Patroclus. era trojan-war; lifecycle authored because he dies at Troy. Brothers Thrasymedes and Peisistratus wired reciprocally in-batch; the mother is unregistered so only the father edge is set.
Parentage
- father: Nestor
Domains
- warfare
- filial devotion
- chariotry
Powers
- Runs down foes and ground with great swiftness
- Carries the death-news of Patroclus to Achilles
Epithets
- Ἀντίλοχος μεγάθυμος — great-hearted Antilochus Hom. Il. 23.419, 23.541 (primary)
- Νέστορος ἀγλαὸς υἱός — Nestor's glorious son Hom. Il. 6.33 (formula of Antilochus); cf. Od. 4.187-188 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: ThrasymedesElder brother; the two Pylian sons of Nestor fight side by side at Troy and tend the wounded Machaon together.Apollod. 1.9.9 (Antilochus and Thrasymedes among the sons of Nestor) (primary)
- sibling: PeisistratusYounger brother; in the Odyssey Peisistratus weeps remembering Antilochus, fallen at Troy.Apollod. 1.9.9; Hom. Od. 3.36-50, 4.155-167 (Peisistratus mourns his absent brother Antilochus) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Homer, Iliad (esp. 4.457-462, 15.568-591, 17.685-701, 18.1-34, 23.301-797); Homer, Odyssey 24.76-79 (primary); Apollodorus, Library 1.9.9 (son of Nestor); Aethiopis arg. (Proclus); Pindar, Pythian 6.28-42; Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 2.243-259 (primary); Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 622-625 (Antilochus and the Memnonis) (secondary)
- parentage: Apollod. 1.9.9 (son of Nestor by Anaxibia daughter of Cratieus); Hom. Od. 3.451-452 (Nestor's wife Eurydice, daughter of Clymenus) (primary)