- Antimachus (disambiguation)
Antimachus may refer to these historical persons:
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Antimachus I , aGraeco-Bactrian king.
#Antimachus II , anotherGraeco-Bactrian king.
#Antimachus ofColophon orClaros , anAncient Greek poet.
#Antimachus of Teos , anAncient Greek epic poet.
# Antimachus of Elis, winner of the stadion race of the Olympic Games in 772 BC."'Antimachus may refer to these persons in
Greek mythology :# Antimachus, son of
Heracles andNicippe , one of the fifty daughters ofThespius . [Apollodorus, Library, 2.7.8 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus2.html] ]
# Antimachus, one of the Heraclides. He was the son ofThrasyanor and father ofDelphontes [Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.19.1 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias2B.html] ]
# Antimachus, one of the suitors ofPenelope , fromDulichium , and slain, along with the others, byOdysseus [Apollodorus, E.7.27 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ApollodorusE.html] ]
# Antimachus, aCentaur . He attended the wedding ofPirithous and was slain byCaeneus . [Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.459 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses12.html] ]
# Antimachus, a Trojan. Bribed byParis , he was against returningHelen toMenelaus . He was the father ofPisander andHippolochus (both killed byAgamemnon ),Hippomachus , killed byLeonteus , descendant ofAres , andTisiphone , wife ofMeneptolemus [Homer, Iliad [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/iliad10.txt] ] [Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 1.545 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html] ]
# Antimachus, a Cretan warrior who came withIdomeneus to fight on the Greeks side in theTrojan war . He was one of the warriors hidden in theTrojan horse [Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. 12.337 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus12.html] ] . He was killed byAeneas [Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. 6.673 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus6.html] ]
# Antimachus, one of the sons ofAegyptus . He married theDanaid Midea who murdered him on their wedding night. [Hyginus, Fabulae, 170 [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html] ]References
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