Archelochus
{{short description|Greek mythical character}}
In Greek mythology, Archelochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχέλοχος) was a son of AntenorApollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.3.34&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Archelochus E.3.34]; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, Prologue 806–807|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} and Theano. Along with his brother, Acamas, and Aeneas, he shared the command of the Dardanians fighting on the side of the Trojans.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.3.34&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Archelochus E.3.34]; Homer, Iliad 2.823
Family
Archelochus was the brother of Crino,Pausanias, 10.27.4 Acamas,Apollodorus, E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, Prologue 806–807, p. 219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} Agenor,{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579 Antheus,Tzetzes on Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#132 134]{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} Coön,Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53 Demoleon,Homer, Iliad 20.395 Eurymachus,Pausanias, 10.27.3 Glaucus,Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, E.5.21; Dictys Cretensis, [https://topostext.org/work/152#4.7 4.7]; Pausanias, 10.27.3 Helicaon,Homer, Iliad 3.123 Iphidamas,Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4 Laodamas,Homer, Iliad 15.516{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=283, 15.193|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} Laodocus,Homer, Iliad 4.87 Medon,Virgil, Aeneid 6.484 PolybusHomer, Iliad 11.59 and Thersilochus
Mythology
According to the Iliad, when the Trojan army was broken up into five divisions Archelochus was one of the three leaders of his division along with the other two Dardanian leaders.Homer, Iliad 12.100 Later in the poem he is killed by Ajax son of Telamon, when the latter throws a spear at Polydamas but it misses the intended target and instead hits Archelochus in the neck:
: "Swiftly then he [Ajax] cast with his bright spear at the other, even as he was drawing back. And Polydamas himself escaped black fate, springing to one side; but Archelochus, son of Antenor, received the spear; for to him the gods purposed death. Him the spear smote at the joining of head and neck on the topmost joint of the spine, and it shore off both the sinews. And far sooner did his head and mouth and nose reach the earth as he fell, than his legs and knees."Homer, Iliad 461–469
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References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
- Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. [https://topostext.org/work/152 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
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- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
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- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
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