Thersilochus

In Greek mythology, Thersilochus (Ancient Greek: Θερσίλοχος) may refer to three different figures:

• Thersilochus, the Trojan son of Antenor^[1] and Theano. His siblings were Crino,^[2] Acamas,^[3][4] Agenor,^[5][6] Antheus,^[7] Archelochus,^[8][9] Coön,^[10] Demoleon,^[11] Eurymachus,^[12] Glaucus,^[13] Helicaon,^[14] Iphidamas,^[15] Laodamas,^[16][17] Laodocus,^[18] Medon^[1] and Polybus.^[5][19] Thersilochus was slain by Achaean hero Achilles.^[20] Later Aeneas met him in the Underworld.^[21]
• Thersilochus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.^[22] He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.^[23]
• Thersilochus, a soldier in Aeneas' army. He was killed by Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy.^[24]

Eponym

• 11509 Thersilochos, Jovian asteroid

Notes

1. Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
2. Pausanias, 10.27.4
3. Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34
4. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806–807, p. 219, 11.44–46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
5. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 219, 11.44–46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
6. Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
7. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 134
8. Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34
9. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806–807. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
10. Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
11. Homer, Iliad 20.395
12. Pausanias, 10.27.3
13. Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3
14. Homer, Iliad 3.123
15. Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
16. Homer, Iliad 15.516
17. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 283, 15.193. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
18. Homer, Iliad 4.87
19. Homer, Iliad 11.59
20. Homer, Iliad 17.216 & 21.209
21. Virgil, Aeneid 6.483
22. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27
23. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33
24. Virgil, Aeneid 12.363

References

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• 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. 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. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. 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.