Antiphates
mythological figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Odyssey
King of the Laestrygonians who kills and eats one of Odysseus's men and rouses his people against the fleet.
But Antiphates raised a hue and cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter - ogres, not men.
"The men when they got on shore followed a level road by which the people draw their firewood from the mountains into the town, till presently they met a young woman who had come outside to fetch water, and who was daughter to a Laestrygonian named Antiphates.
Iliad
Trojan warrior killed by Leonteus with a sword, falling face upward.
He then drew his sword and sprang first upon Antiphates whom he killed in combat, and who fell face upwards on the earth.
Themistocles
A former beauty who once disdained Themistocles but later courted him after he gained reputation.
Again, to one who had once been a beauty, Antiphates, and who had at that time treated him disdainfully, but afterwards courted him because of the reputation he had got, Young man, said he,’tis late,’tis true, but both of us have come to our senses.
Aeneid
Illegitimate son of Sarpedon by a Theban captive, first slain by Turnus in the episode.
There first Antiphates, who made his war far in the van (a Theban captive's child to great Sarpedon out of wedlock born), he felled to earth with whirling javelin:
th' Italic shaft of cornel lightly flew along the yielding air, and through his throat pierced deep into the breast;