 Though the youngest among the Greek princes, he commanded the Pylians in the war and performed many deeds of valour.He was a favorite of the gods and a friend of Achilles, to whom he was commissioned to announce the death of Patroclus.When his father Nestor was attacked by Memnon, Antilochus sacrificed himself to save him, thus fulfilling an oracle which had warned to "beware of an Ethiopian."