Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Antilochus.
The gallery
Antilochus (Attic red-figure neck-amphora)
Tithonos Painter, c. 470 BC
Louvre G 213: the Tithonos Painter names Antilochus on an Attic neck-amphora — Nestor's swift son isolated as a Trojan-War presence in early Classical vase painting.
Achilles Mourns Patroclus (Attic red-figure stamnos)
Hephaisteion Painter, c. 480–470 BC
At Leiden, Antilochus stands left of grieving Achilles — the messenger who brought news of Patroclus' death — while Thetis brings new arms. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
In play
Antilochus
Nestor's son, charioteer and favorite of Achilles — killed by Memnon in the Aethiopis tradition, remembered for the funeral games and the messenger scene of the Iliad.
Iliad
Homer
Homer's epic keeps Antilochus among the Pylians at Troy — swift in the chariot race for Patroclus, loyal beside Nestor and Menelaus.