Antilochus
Antilochos on an Attic red-figure neck amphora. Tithonus painter around 470 BC Chr.
Antilochos ( Greek Ἀντίλοχος ) is the oldest son of Nestor and Eurydice (or Anaxibia ) in Greek mythology . He was a suitor of the beautiful Helena and for this reason had to take part in the Trojan War . According to another tradition, he came late, against the will of his father and at the intercession of Achilles , who loved him as a companion.
Antilochus died when he rushed to his father's aid and protected him from the Ethiopian Memnon .
Achilles avenged the death of his friend by killing Memnon and arranged a funeral game for him. Antilochus was burned and his ashes were buried next to those of Achilles and Patroclus . In Hades these three and Aias are together.
literature
- Anneliese Kossatz-Deissmann : Antilochos 1 . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume I, Zurich / Munich 1981, pp. 830-838.
- Adolf Schirmer : Antilochus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 375-377 ( digitized version ).
- Richard Wagner : Antilochus 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2429-2431.
Web links
Commons : Antilochos - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Antilochus in the Greek Mythology Index (English)