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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Antilochus

    mythological figure · 8 works · 10 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    Antilochus of Lemnos · the Devoted Son

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Antilochus of Lemnos1 mention

    Vitae philosophorum (Greek)

    He was sharply criticized, according to Aristotle in his third book On Poetry, by a certain Antilochus of Lemnos, and by Antiphon the soothsayer, just as Pythagoras was by Cylon of Croton, or as Homer was assailed in his lifetime by Syagrus, and after his death by Xenophanes of Colophon.
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    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Son of Nestor, Achaean warrior killed by Memnon.

    And once a stronger battle taking place, as they forced their way to take the fort, Ajax dies by Hector, and Antilochus by Memnon before his father;
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    But the affairs of the Achaeans were far meaner, Antilochus and Ajax being dead;
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    and Memnon himself too was wounded by Antilochus, and being carried off wounded dies on the road.
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    Vitae philosophorumImperial · Greek

    Rival of Socrates, mentioned as a parallel to Cylon's rivalry with Pythagoras.

    It is said that Cylon was a rival of Pythagoras, as Antilochus was of Socrates.
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    He was sharply criticized, according to Aristotle in his third book On Poetry, by a certain Antilochus of Lemnos, and by Antiphon the soothsayer, just as Pythagoras was by Cylon of Croton, or as Homer was assailed in his lifetime by Syagrus, and after his death by Xenophanes of Colophon.
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    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Chronographer who dated learned men from Pythagoras to the death of Epicurus.

    PythianClassical · Greek

    Son of Nestor, a Homeric hero who died shielding his father from the Ethiopian commander Memnon, invoked as the mythic paradigm of devotion to a parent that Thrasybulus is said to rival.

    Long ago, too, powerful Antilochus showed that he had this way of thinking;
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    his god-like son stayed on the spot and paid for his father’s rescue with his own life, and because he accomplished this tremendous deed he seemed to the younger men to be the greatest man of his time in excellence towards his parents.
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    The old man of Messene, his mind reeling, shouted to his son;
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    IonClassical · Greek

    Nestor's son, addressed in the quoted chariot-racing advice.

    Tell me then what Nestor says to his son Antilochus, advising him to be careful about the turning-post in the horse-race in honor of Patroclus.
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    LysanderImperial · Greek

    Poet who composed verses honoring Lysander and was rewarded generously.

    while with Antilochus, who composed some verses in his honor, he was so pleased that he filled his cap with silver and gave it to him.
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    Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeatImperial · Greek

    Young Greek warrior rebuked in the cited verses for a rash, deceitful act during a chariot race, used to illustrate that wisdom precludes lying even in games.

    The praise of wisdom, in thy youth obtain’d, An act so rash, Antilochus, has stain’d:
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    I deemed thee once the wisest of thy kind, But ill this insult suits a prudent mind.
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    On HuntingClassical · Greek

    A heroic pupil proclaimed among Greeks as the Devoted Son.

    Antilochus, by giving his life for his father, won such glory that he alone was proclaimed among the Greeks as the Devoted Son.
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    And he had for pupils in venery and in other noble pursuits—Cephalus, Asclepius, Meilanion, Nestor, Amphiaraus, Peleus, Telamon, Meleager, Theseus, Hippolytus, Palamedes, Odysseus, Menestheus, Diomedes, Castor, Polydeuces, Machaon, Podaleirius, Antilochus, Aeneas, Achilles, of whom each in his time was honoured by gods.
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