Galaxy/The codex of Antiphonus

One of the nine sons of Priam whom the old king summoned when he set out to ransom Hector — a namesake of Antiphus son of Hecuba in Apollodorus' stemma and of allied captains elsewhere in the poem.1

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Priam chid Antiphonus among the nine sons he called to harness the wagon for sacred Ilios: Helenus and Paris, goodly Agathon, Pammon, Polites good at the war-cry, Deïphobus, Hippothous, and lordly Dius — base children who had not died for Hector.2

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Antiphonus — art, artifacts and echoes.

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