Orsilochus, grandson of the precedent through
Diocles, and twin of Crethon. He was the brother of
Anticleia. These men fought at
Troy under
Agamemnon and were killed by
Aeneas.[7]
Orsilochus, another Trojan who followed Aeneas to Italy and was killed by
Camilla.[9]
Orsilochus of
Argos, who was credited with inventing the four-horse chariot, and, in reward for his invention, wk989s placed among the stars as the constellation
Auriga.[10] See also
Trochilus.
Orsilochus, a (perhaps imaginary) son of
King Idomeneus of Crete and
scion of
Minos, renowned as a great runner and the fastest man on
Crete, who only appears in a story made up by Odysseus,[11] see below.
Orsilochus of Crete was mentioned in Book 13 of
Homer's Odyssey, when
Odysseus makes use of his little-known status in
Ithaca to construct an elaborate lie for the benefit of the disguised and fully cognisant
Pallas Athena, claiming that he had killed him: "He tried to fleece me of all the booty I had won at Troy, my reward for the long-drawn agonies of war and all the miseries of voyages by sea, merely because I refused to obey his father and serve under him at Troy, and preferred to lead my own command. So, with a friend at my side, I laid an intense ambush for him at the side of the road, and struck him with my bronze spear as he was coming in from the country. There was a pitch-black sky that night covering the heavens, and not a soul saw us; so no-one knew that it was I who had killed him."[12]
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Orsilochus, grandson of the precedent through
Diocles, and twin of Crethon. He was the brother of
Anticleia. These men fought at
Troy under
Agamemnon and were killed by
Aeneas.[7]
Orsilochus, another Trojan who followed Aeneas to Italy and was killed by
Camilla.[9]
Orsilochus of
Argos, who was credited with inventing the four-horse chariot, and, in reward for his invention, wk989s placed among the stars as the constellation
Auriga.[10] See also
Trochilus.
Orsilochus, a (perhaps imaginary) son of
King Idomeneus of Crete and
scion of
Minos, renowned as a great runner and the fastest man on
Crete, who only appears in a story made up by Odysseus,[11] see below.
Orsilochus of Crete was mentioned in Book 13 of
Homer's Odyssey, when
Odysseus makes use of his little-known status in
Ithaca to construct an elaborate lie for the benefit of the disguised and fully cognisant
Pallas Athena, claiming that he had killed him: "He tried to fleece me of all the booty I had won at Troy, my reward for the long-drawn agonies of war and all the miseries of voyages by sea, merely because I refused to obey his father and serve under him at Troy, and preferred to lead my own command. So, with a friend at my side, I laid an intense ambush for him at the side of the road, and struck him with my bronze spear as he was coming in from the country. There was a pitch-black sky that night covering the heavens, and not a soul saw us; so no-one knew that it was I who had killed him."[12]
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.