Antiochus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Antiochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίοχος) may refer to:

• Antiochus, son of Heracles and Meda.^[1] Both his maternal grandfather and his own son bore the name Phylas. He was the eponym of the Athenian phyle Antiochis.^[2]
• Antiochus, one of the eight sons of Melas who were killed by Tydeus for plotting against Oeneus.^[3]
• Antiochus, one of the sons of Pterelaus.^[4][5]
• Antiochus, one of the sons of Aegyptus. He married (and was killed by) Itea, daughter of Danaus.^[6]
• Antiochus, one of the sacrificial victims of Minotaur.

References

1. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 37. 1
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 5. 2 & 10. 10. 1
3. Bibliotheca 1. 8. 3
4. Bibliotheca 2. 4. 5
5. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 932
6. Hyginus, Fabulae, 170