InGreek mythology,Orsilochus (Ancient Greek: Ὀρσίλοχος),Ortilochus (Ὀρτίλοχος) orOrsilocus is a name that may refer to:

• Orsilochus, son of theriver godAlpheus andTelegone, daughter ofPharis.^[1] He was a resident ofPherae^[2] and its king after succeeding his grandfather to the throne. It was at his home thatOdysseus metIphitos the son ofEurytus.^[3] Orsilochus had at least one sonDiocles,^[4] his successor, and at least two daughters:Dorodoche, said by some to be the wife ofIcarius,^[5] andMedusa, the wife ofPolybus of Corinth.^[6]
• Orsilochus, grandson of the precedent throughDiocles, and twin ofCrethon. He was the brother ofAnticleia. These men fought atTroy underAgamemnon and were killed byAeneas.^[7]
• Orsilochus, aTrojan soldier who was shot dead by theGreek hero,Teucer, during theTrojan War.^[8]
• Orsilochus, another Trojan who followed Aeneas to Italy and was killed byCamilla.^[9]
• Orsilochus ofArgos, who was credited with inventing the four-horse chariot, and, in reward for his invention, was placed among the stars as the constellationAuriga.^[10] See alsoTrochilus.
• Orsilochus, a (perhaps imaginary) son ofKing Idomeneus of Crete andscion ofMinos, renowned as a great runner and the fastest man onCrete, who only appears in a story made up by Odysseus,^[11] see below.
• Orsilochus of Crete was mentioned in Book 13 ofHomer'sOdyssey, whenOdysseus makes use of his little-known status inIthaca to construct an elaborate lie for the benefit of the disguised and fully cognisantPallas 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]

• The asteroids5284 Orsilocus and5285 Krethon were named after Orsilochus and Crethon, the sons ofDiocles, respectively.
• Orsilochus (millipede), a genus of millipedes in the family Siphonotidae

• 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.
• 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.
• Homer,The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.ISBN 978-0674995611.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• 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.
• Strabo,The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo,Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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