Antimachus (mythology) explained

Antimachus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀντίμαχος|Antímakhos, derived from ἀντί anti and μάχη makhe: "against battle") may refer to these persons in Greek mythology:

• Antimachus, the son of Hippodamas, son of the river Achelous and Aeolid Perimede.^[1]
• Antimachus, one of the sons of Aegyptus. He married the Danaid Mideia who murdered him on their wedding night.^[2]
• Antimachus, a Centaur. He attended the wedding of Pirithous and was slain by Caeneus.^[3]
• Antimachus, the Thespian son of Heracles and Nicippe,^[4] daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae.^[5] Antimachus and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who were impregnated by Heracles in one night,^[6] for a week^[7] or in the course of 50 days^[8] while hunting for the Cithaeronian lion.^[9] Later on, the hero sent a message to Thespius to keep seven of these sons and send three of them in Thebes while the remaining forty, joined by Iolaus, were dispatched to the island of Sardinia to found a colony.^[10]
• Antimachus, one of the Heraclides. He was the son of Thrasyanor and father of Deiphontes.^[11]
• 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.^[12] He was killed by Aeneas.^[13]
• Antimachus, the Trojan father of Pisander, Hippolochus,^[14] Hippomachus,^[15] and Tisiphone.^[16] Bribed by Paris, he was against returning Helen to Menelaus.^[17]
• Antimachus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.^[18] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the assistance of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.^[19]

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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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, in Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments, edited and translated by Glenn W. Most, Loeb Classical Library No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2007, 2018. . Online version at Harvard University Press.
• 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theoi.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
• Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theoi.com

Notes and References

1. [Hesiod]
2. [Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]
3. [Ovid]
4. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
5. Apollodorus, 2.4.10.
6. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
7. [Athenaeus]
8. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
9. Apollodorus, 2.4.9–10.
10. Apollodorus, 2.7.6
11. Pausanias, 2.19.1
12. [Quintus Smyrnaeus]
13. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6.673
14. [Homer]
15. Homer, Iliad 12.189
16. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.406
17. Homer, Iliad 11.123–125
18. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27
19. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33