Antheia
In Ancient Greek religion, Antheia or Anthea (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθεία, lit. 'Flower goddess')[1] may refer to the following characters:
- Antheia, one of the seven Hesperides according to a lekythos by Asteas. The other six were called Aiopis, Donakis, Calypso, Mermesa, Nelisa and Tara.[2]
- Anthea, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede, who spent fifty nights with Heracles, one each night.[3]
- Antheia, an epithet of both the goddesses Hera and Aphrodite. According to the geographer Pausanias, there was a temple of Hera Antheia at Argos,[4] while according to Hesychius, Antheia was a name used for Aphrodite at Knossos.[5]
Anthe (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθη, romanized: Anthē, lit. 'blossom' or 'flower') is a variant of the same name which refer to:
- Anthe, one of the Alcyonides, who, after the death of their father, the giant Alcyoneus, threw themselves into the sea and were transformed into ice birds by Amphitrite.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Willets, p. 209.
- ↑ Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1905). History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch. Vol. 2. p. 92.. Vase = Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli (MANN) 81847.
- ↑ Apollodorus, 2.4.10 & 7.8
- ↑ Pirenne-Delforge, and Pironti, s.v Hera; Smith, s.v. Antheia; LSJ, s.v. Ἄνθεια; Pausanias, 2.22.1.
- ↑ Willets, p. 209; Smith, s.v. Antheia; LSJ, s.v. Ἄνθεια; Hesychius, s.v. Ἄνθεια.
- ↑ Eustathius ad Iliad p. 776 with Pausanias as the authority; Suda s.v. Alcyon days (Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι) as cited from Hegesander's Hypomnemata
References
- Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1940. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hesychius of Alexandria, Hesychii Alexandrini lexicon, Moritz Schmidt (ed.), Jenae, Sumptibus Hermanni Dufftii (Libraria Maukiana), 1867. Internet Archive
- 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, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane, and Gabriella Pironti, s.v. Hera, published online 30 July 2015, revised 26 October 2017, in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Tim Whitmarsh, digital ed, New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5.
- R. F. Willetts (1977). The Civilization of Ancient Crete. University of California Press. p. 209.