Diocles (son of Orsilochus)
Diocles ( Greek Διοκλῆς ) is in Greek mythology a son of Orsilochus and after this king of Pharai .
In Homer's Iliad he has twin sons, Krethon and Orsilochus , who both fight in the Trojan War in front of Troy and are killed there by Aeneas . After Pausanias , he is also the father of Antikleia . In the Odyssey , Telemachus and Peisistratos stop at the house of Diocles on their journey from Pylos to Sparta and on the way back, where they are received with great hospitality.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Diocles 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1021 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Diocles 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 792.