Antilochus
Also known as: Antilochus son of Nestor / Nestor’s son / son of Nestor · Family: Achaeans · Role: warrior · First appears: BOOK IV
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Antilochus) · The Odyssey (as Antilochus)
In Book IV, Antilochus, son of Nestor, killed the Trojan Echepolus in the foremost ranks. In Book XV he killed Melanippus and moved to strip his armour, but Hector saw him and ran toward him through the battle, forcing Antilochus to flee.
In Book XVII, Antilochus left the field to bring Achilles news of Patroclus’s fall; in Book XVIII he told Achilles that Patroclus was dead and Hector had taken his armour. Book XXIII brought a dispute with Menelaus over a mare: Antilochus conceded the prize, and Menelaus returned the mare to him. In the same book, Antilochus rose alongside Ajax son of Oileus and Ulysses to compete.
Relationship record
Life events
- Antilochus kills Echepolus, and Agenor kills Elephenor while he drags away the body.(BOOK IV)
- With: Echepolus Agenor Elephenor
- “First Antilochus slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks. He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephenor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were falling around him, in haste to strip him of his armour. But his purpose was not for long; Agenor saw him haling the body away, and smote him in the side with his bronze-shod spear—for as he stooped his side was left unprotected by his shield—and thus he perished.”
- Antilochus kills Melanippus and attempts to strip his armour before fleeing Hector.(BOOK XV)
- With: Melanippus
- “Even so, O Melanippus, did stalwart Antilochus spring upon you to strip you of your armour; but noble Hector marked him, and came running up to him through the thick of the battle.”
- Antilochus departed for the ships to tell Achilles that Patroclus had fallen.(BOOK XVII)
- Antilochus reveals that Patroclus has fallen and Hector has taken his armour.(BOOK XVIII)
- Menelaus returns the disputed mare to Antilochus after Antilochus concedes the prize.(BOOK XXIII)
- With: Menelaus
- “With this he gave the mare over to Antilochus’s comrade Noemon, and then took the cauldron.”
BOOK IV
- enemies with Echepolus “First Antilochus slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks.”
BOOK V
- parent: Nestor “Antilochus the son of Nestor”
BOOK VI
- parent: Nestor (Nestor is Antilochus's father.) “Ablerus fell by the spear of Nestor’s son Antilochus”
- with Ablerus (Antilochus killed Ablerus.) “Ablerus fell by the spear of Nestor’s son Antilochus”
BOOK XIII
- enemies with Asius “thereupon Antilochus hit him in the middle of his body with a spear”
- with Neptune (interaction) “Neptune stood guard over the son of Nestor”
BOOK XV
- parent: Nestor “the son of Nestor fly”
- enemies with Melanippus “Antilochus sprang upon him as a dog springs on a fawn which a hunter has hit as it was breaking away from its covert, and killed it.”
- enemies with Hector “noble Hector marked him, and came running up to him through the thick of the battle.”
BOOK XVI
- enemies with Atymnius “Antilochus, speared Atymnius”
- with Atymnius (interaction) “Antilochus, speared Atymnius, driving the point of the spear through his throat”
- parent: Nestor “Of the sons of Nestor one, Antilochus”
- siblings with Thrasymedes “these two noble comrades of Sarpedon go down to Erebus slain by the two sons of Nestor”
BOOK XVII
- parent: Nestor “they were keeping themselves in reserve against the death or rout of their own comrades, for so Nestor had ordered when he sent them from the ships into battle”
BOOK XVIII
- with Achilles (interaction) “the fleet runner Antilochus, who had been sent as messenger, reached Achilles, and found him sitting by his tall ships”
BOOK XXIII
- parent: Nestor “Antilochus,” said Nestor, “you are young, but Jove and Neptune have loved you well, and have made you an excellent horseman.”
- rivals with Menelaus “Menelaus then upbraided Antilochus and said, “There is no greater trickster living than you are; go, and bad luck go with you;”
- with Menelaus (interaction) “The son of Nestor then took the mare and gave her over to Menelaus, whose anger was thus appeased;”
- rivals with Ajax son of Oileus “Forthwith uprose fleet Ajax son of Oileus, with cunning Ulysses, and Nestor’s son Antilochus”
- rivals with Ulysses “Forthwith uprose fleet Ajax son of Oileus, with cunning Ulysses, and Nestor’s son Antilochus”
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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.