In Greek mythology, Antilochus (; Ancient Greek: Ἀντίλοχος Antílokhos) was a prince of Pylos and one of the Achaeans in the Trojan War.
Family
Antilochus was the son of King Nestor either by AnaxibiaHomer, Odyssey 3.451–52 or Eurydice.Apollodorus, 1.9.9 He was the brother to Thrasymedes, Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron and Pisistratus.
Mythology
One of the suitors of Helen, Antilochus accompanied his father and his brother Thrasymedes 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 favorite of the gods and a friend of Achilles, to whom he was commissioned to announce the death of Patroclus.
When his father Nestor was attacked by Memnon, Antilochus sacrificed himself to save him,Pindar, Pythian Odes 6.28 thus fulfilling an oracle which had warned to "beware of an Ethiopian."
Antilochus' death was avenged by Achilles, who drove the Trojans back to the gates, where he is killed by Paris.
In later accounts, he was slain by HectorHyginus, Fabulae 113  or by Paris in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with AchillesDares Phrygius, History of the Fall of Troy 34 His ashes, along with those of Achilles and Patroclus, were enshrined in a mound on the promontory of Sigeion, where the inhabitants of Ilium offered sacrifice to the dead heroes.Homer, Odyssey 24.72Strabo, Geographica 13 In the Odyssey,Homer, Odyssey 11.468 the three friends are represented as united in the underworld and walking together in the Asphodel Meadows.
According to Pausanias,Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.19 they dwell together on the island of Leuke.
Among the Trojans he killed were Melanippus, Ablerus, Atymnius, Phalces, Echepolos, and Thoon, although Hyginus records that he only killed two Trojans.Hyginus, Fabulae 114 At the funeral games of Patroclus, Antilochus finished second in the chariot race and third in the foot race.
Antilochus left behind in Messenia a son Paeon, whose descendants were among the Neleidae expelled  from Messenia, by the descendants of Heracles.Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.18.7–9 Notes
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The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-).
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Pausanias, Description of Greece.
W. H. S. Jones (translator).
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918).
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Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien.
1990.
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Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA.
Cambridge, MA.
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Strabo, The Geography of Strabo.
Edition by H.L. Jones.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
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