ANTILOCHUS

in Greek legend, son of Nestor, king of Pylos. One of the suitors of Helen, whose abduction caused the Trojan War, he accompanied his father to the war and distinguished himself as acting commander of the Pylians. When Nestor was attacked by Memnon (king of the Ethiopians), Antilochus saved his father's life at the sacrifice of his own, thus fulfilling the oracle that had bidden him beware of an Ethiopian. According to later accounts, he was slain by Hector or by Paris (both sons of King Priam of Troy) in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo together with his friend Achilles.