Antimachus (mythology)

Antimachus (Ancient Greek: Αντίμαχος "against battle", derived from αντι anti "against" and μαχη mache "battle.") may refer to these persons in Greek mythology:

• Antimachus, son of Heracles and Nicippe, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius.[1]
• Antimachus, one of the Heraclides. He was the son of Thrasyanor and father of Deiphontes [2]
• Antimachus, one of the suitors of Penelope, from Dulichium, and slain, along with the others, by Odysseus [3]
• Antimachus, a Centaur. He attended the wedding of Pirithous and was slain by Caeneus.[4]
• Antimachus, a Trojan. Bribed by Paris, he was against returning Helen to Menelaus. He was the father of Pisander and Hippolochus (both killed by Agamemnon), Hippomachus, injured by Leonteus, descendant of Ares, and Tisiphone, wife of Meneptolemus [5][6]
• Antimachus, a Cretan warrior who came with Idomeneus to fight on the Greeks side in the Trojan war. He was one of the warriors hidden in the Trojan horse.[7] He was killed by Aeneas [8]
• Antimachus, one of the sons of Aegyptus. He married the Danaid Mideia who murdered him on their wedding night.[9]
• Antimachus, the son of Hippodamas, son of the river Achelous and Aeolid Perimede.[10]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.19.1
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 4.7.27
4. Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.459
5. Homer, Iliad
6. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 1.545
7. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 12.337
8. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 6.673
9. Hyginus, Fabulae 170
10. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a)45–9 Merkelbach & West 1990.

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.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• 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.
• Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1990), "Fragmenta selecta", in F. Solmsen (ed.), Hesiodi Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum (3rd rev. ed.), Oxford, ISBN 0-19-814071-1
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• 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