Anthas

Anthas

Anthas

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In Greek mythology, Anthas or Anthes (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθας, Ἄνθης, romanized: Ánthas, Ánthes) was a son of Poseidon and Alcyone,[1] and brother of Hyperes. The brothers were eponymous founders and first kings of the cities Hyperea and Anthea in a region they reigned over; later on these two cities were merged into the historical Troezen.[2] Anthas was father of at least two sons, Aëtius and Dius,[3] of whom Aëtius was the successor to both his father and uncle, and further co-ruled with Pittheus and Troezen.[2] The descendants of Anthas through Aëtius reputedly founded colonies in Caria: Halicarnassus and Myndus,[4] and accordingly the people of Halicarnassus were referred to by the poetic epithet Antheades 'descendants of Anthas'.[5] Alternately, Halicarnassus was founded by Anthas himself.[6] Anthas also was the presumed eponym of Anthedon, over which he was said to have reigned,[1] and of Anthana in Laconia.[7]

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  1. [1]
    Pausanias, 9.22.5
  2. [2]
    Pausanias, 2.30.8
  3. [3]
    Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Anthedōn (for Dius)
  4. [4]
    Pausanias, 2.30.9
  5. [5]
    Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Athēnai
  6. [6]
    Strabo, 8.6.14 & 14.2.16; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Halikarnassos
  7. [7]
    Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Anthana: he is further said to have been killed and flayed by Cleomenes I, brother of Leonidas I, however chronologically inadequate that may seem.

References

  • 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.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • 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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