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In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Antíphatês (in Latin) or Antiphátês (??t?f?t?? in Ancient Greek) is the name of five characters.

Antíphatês, King of the Laestrygones, a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibals. He was married and had a daughter. When he was visited by a scouting party sent by Odysseus
Odysseus

Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
, he ate one of the men on the spot and raised a hue-and-cry to ensure most of the rest of Odysseus' company would be hunted down.
Antíphatês, a Trojan
Trojan

Trojan originally referred to a citizen of the city of Troy made legendary by the Trojan War .Trojan may also refer to:Language...
warrior, slain by Leonteus.

Antíphatês, son of Melampus

Melampus

In Greek mythology, Melampus, or Melampous , was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Ancient Egypt and that he could understand the language of animals....
and Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes

Megapenthes

In Greek mythology, Megap?nth?s was a son of Proetus. He exchanged kingdoms with his cousin Perseus , whom he killed much later. He was the father of Argeus and possibly Anaxagoras ....
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Greek mythology

Antíphatês, King of the Laestrygones, a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibals. He was married and had a daughter. When he was visited by a scouting party sent by Odysseus
Odysseus

Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
, he ate one of the men on the spot and raised a hue-and-cry to ensure most of the rest of Odysseus' company would be hunted down.
Antíphatês, a Trojan
Trojan

Trojan originally referred to a citizen of the city of Troy made legendary by the Trojan War .Trojan may also refer to:Language...
warrior, slain by Leonteus.
Antíphatês, son of Melampus
Melampus

In Greek mythology, Melampus, or Melampous , was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Ancient Egypt and that he could understand the language of animals....
and Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes
Megapenthes

In Greek mythology, Megap?nth?s was a son of Proetus. He exchanged kingdoms with his cousin Perseus , whom he killed much later. He was the father of Argeus and possibly Anaxagoras ....
. He married Zeuxippe
Zeuxippe

In Greek mythology, Zeuxippe was the name of several women.*Zeuxippe was the mother of Eribotes and Butes by Teleon. She was the daughter of the river Eridanos ....
, the daughter of Hippocoon
Hippocoon

In Greek mythology, Hippocoon was a son of King Oebalus and Queen Gorgophone of Sparta. When their father died, Hippocoon's brother, Tyndareus, became king....
. Their children were Oecles and Amphalces.
Antíphatês, one of Greek warriors who hid in the Trojan horse
Trojan Horse

The "Trojan Horse" refers to the stratagem that allowed the Greeks to finally enter the city of Troy during the Trojan War. In the best-known version of this Bronze Age story, after a fruitless 10-year siege of Troy, the Greeks built a huge figure of a horse, in which a select force of men hid....
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Antíphatês, son of Sarpedon
Sarpedon

In Greek mythology, Sarpedon referred to at least three different people....
. Who accompanied Aeneas
Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
to Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
where he was killed by Turnus
Turnus

In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas. Prior to Aeneas' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people....
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