Antiphus

In Greek mythology, Antiphus or Ántiphos (/an'tĭfŭs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄντιφος) is a name attributed to multiple individuals:

• Antiphus, son of King Myrmidon and Peisidice, and brother of Actor.[1] He may be the same with Antippus, the father of Hippea who became the mother of Polyphemus, Caeneus, Ischys and Amycus by Elatus, king of the Lapiths.[2]
• Antiphus, son of Heracles and Laothoe, daughter of Thespius.[3]
• Antiphus, a defender of Thebes in the war of the Seven against Thebes who was killed by Amphiaraus and Apollo.[4]
• Antiphus, son of Thessalus, the son of Heracles, and Chalciope. With his brother Pheidippus, Antiphus lead the forces of Calydnae, Cos, Carpathus, Casus and Nisyrus on the side of the Greeks against Troy. He was also believed to have invaded a region of Greece that he named Thessaly after his father.[5][6][7]
• Antiphus, one of the 50 sons of Priam, and son of Hecuba. During the Trojan War, he was killed by Agamemnon.[8]
• Antiphus of Maeonia, son of Talaemenes and brother of Mesthles; both he and his brother were allies of Priam in the Trojan War.[9][10]
• Antiphus, son of Aegyptius, was a Greek commander who sailed from Troy with Odysseus. Having previously escaped death at the hand of Eurypylus (son of Telephus), he was devoured by Polyphemus.[11][12]
• Antiphus, an old friend of the house of Odysseus.[13]

The name Antiphus is not to be confused with Antiphōs (Ἀντίφως), which refers to a soldier in the army of the Seven against Thebes who killed Chromis but was himself killed by Hypseus.[14]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.3
2. Hyginus. Fabulae, 14.
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8
4. Statius, Thebaid 7.755
5. Homer, Iliad 2.172-176 Robert Fagles Translation
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 6.15
7. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
8. Homer. Iliad 4.489
9. Homer, Iliad 2.864
10. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 3.35
11. Homer, Odyssey 2.15-20
12. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 8.125
13. Homer, Odyssey 17.68
14. Statius, Thebaid 9.252

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer. Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.