A'NTIAS, a
cognomen
of the Valeria Gens,
1786, pp.
1786, pp.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
c.
),
(L. S. ) his phallophori. (Athen. x. p. 445. ) Hence he
ANTE'NOR ('Artrivwp), the son of Euphranor, is ranked by Athenaeus (1. c. ) as a comic poet, but
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184
ANTHES.
ANTIAS.
&
this is not precisely correct, since he lived before the island of Calnuria was originally called, after
the period when comedy assumed its proper form. him, Anthedonia.
(L. S. ]
It is well observed by Bode (Dram. Dichtkunst. ANTHEUS ('Avdets), the blooming, a surname
ii. p. 16), that Antheas, with his comus of phalio of Dionysus. (Paus. vii. 21. & 2. ) Anthius, a sur-
phori, stands in the same relation to comedy as name which Dionysus bore at Athens, is probably
Arion, with his dithyrambic chorus, to tragedy. only a different form for Antheus. (Paus. i. 31. 82. )
(See also Dict. of Ant. s. 1. Comoediu. ) (P. S. ) There are also two fabulous personages of this
ANTHEDON. (ANTHAS. ]
name. (Hygin. Fab. 157; Virg. Aen, i. 181, 510,
ANTHEIA ("Avdeia), the blooming, or the xii. 443. )
(L. S. )
friend of flowers, a surname of Hera, under which ANTHEUS, a Greek sculptor of considerable
she had a temple at Argos. Before this temple reputation, though not of first-rate excellence,
was the mound under which the women were bu- flourished about 180 B. C. (Plin. xxxiv. 19, where
ried who had come with Dionysus from the Aegean Antheus is a correction for the common reading
jslands, and had fallen in a contest with the Ar Antaeus. )
[P. S. )
gives and Perseus. (Paus. ii. 22. § 1. ) Antheia ANTHIANUS (ANTHUS? ), FURIUS, a
was used at Gnossus as a surname of Aphrodite. Roman jurisconsult, of uncertain date. He was
(Hesych. s. v. )
(L. S. ] probably not later than Severus Alexander. He
ANTHE’LII ('Avoňaoi daiuoves), certain di- wrote a work upon the Edict, which in the Floren-
vinities whose images stood before the doors of tine Index to the Digest is entitled méposéBIKTOV
houses, and were exposed to the sun, whence they Bubala 6te, but there are only three extracts
derived their name. (Aeschyl. Agam. 530; Lobeck, made from it in the Digest, and all of these are
ud Soph. Ajac. 805. )
[L. S. ]
taken from the first book. This has led many to
ANTHEMIUS, emperor of the West, remark hold that the compilers of the Digest possessed
able for his reign exhibiting the last effort of the only an imperfect copy of his work. (P. I. Besier,
Eastern empire to support the sinking fortunes of Diss. de Furio Anthiano, J. C. ejusque fragmentis,
the Western. He was the son of Procopius, and Lug. Bat. 1803. )
[J. T. G. )
son-in-law of the emperor Marcian, and on Ricimer A'NTHIMUS ('Avoluos), bishop of Trapezus
applying to the eastern emperor Leo for a successor in Pontus, was made patriarch of Constantinople
to Majorian in the west, he was in a. D. 467 by the influence of the empress Theodora (A. D.
named for the office, in which he was confirmed 535), and about the same time was drawn over to
at Rome. His daughter was married to Ricimer; the Eutychian heresy by Severus. Soon after his
but a quarrel arising between Anthemius and election to the patriarchate, Agapetus, the bishop
Ricimer, the latter acknowledged Olybrius as em- of Rome, came to Constantinople, and obtained
peror, and laid siege to Rome, which he took by from the emperor Justinian a sentence of deposi-
storm in 473. Anthemius perished in the assault
. tion against Anthimus, which was confirmed by a
His private life, which seems to have been good, synod held at Constantinople under Mennas, the
is given in the panegyric upon him by Sidonius successor of Anthimus. (A. D. 536 ; Novell. 42;
Apollonius, whom he patronized ; bis public life in Mansi, Nova Collect. Concil
. viii. pp. 821, 869,
Jornandes (cle Reb. Get. c. 45), Marcellinus (Chron. ), 1149-1158; Labbe, v. ; AGAPETL's. ) Some frag-
and Theophanes (p. 101). See Gibbon, Decline ments of the debate between Anthimus and Aga-
und Fall c. 36.
(A. P. S. ] petus in the presence of Justinian are preserved in
ANTHEMIUS ('Avoémios), an eminent mathe the Acts of the Councils.
[P. S. )
matician and architect, born at Tralles, in Lydia, ANTHIPPUS ("AVOITTOS), a Greek comic poet,
in the sixth century after Christ. His father's a play of whose is cited by Athenaeus (ix. p. 403),
name was Stephanus, who was a physician (Alex. where, however, we ought perhaps to read Avalir.
Trall. iv. 1, p. 198); one of his brothers was the *9. (ANAXIPPUS. )
(P. S. )
celebrated Alexander Trallianus; and Agathias ANTHUS ("Avoos), a son of Autonous and
mentions (Hisi. v. p. 149), that his three other Hippodameia, who was torn to pieces by the horses
brothers, Dioscorus, Metrodorus, and Olympius, of his father, and was metamorphosed into a bird
were each eminent in their several professions, which imitated the neighing of a horse, but always
He was one of the architects employed by the fled from the sight of a horse. (Anton. Lib. 1 ;
emperor Justinian in the building of the church of Plin. H. N. x. 57. )
(L. S. )
St. Sophia, A. D. 532 (Procop. in Combefis. Manip. A'NTIA GENS, of which the cognomens are
Rerum CPol. p. 284; Agath. Hist. v. p. 149, Briso and Restio, seems to have been of con-
&c. ; Du Cange, CPolis Christ. lib. ii. p. 11; siderable antiquity. The only person of this name,
Anselm. Bandur. ad Antiq. CPol. p. 77:2), and who has no cognomen, is Sp. ANTIUS.
to him Eutocius dedicated his Commentary on ANTIANEIRA ('Avriáveipa). 1. The mother
the Conica of Apollonius. A fragment of one of of the Argonaut Idmon by Apollo. (Orph. Ary.
his mathematical works was published at Paris, 187. ) The scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (i.
4to. by M. Dupuy, 1777, with the title “ Frag- 139), however, calls Asteria the mother of Idmon.
ment d'un Ouvrage Grec d'Anthemius sur des 2. A daughter of Menelaus, and mother of the
* Paradoxes de Mécanique ;'_revu et corrigé sur Argonauts Eurytus and Echiones, whom she bore
quatre Manuscrits, avec une Traduction Françoise to Hermes. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 56 ; Hygin. Fale
et des Notes. ” It is also to be found in the forts- | 14. )
[L. S. )
second volume of the Hist. de l'Acad. des Inscr.
A'NTIAS, a cognomen of the Valeria Gens,
1786, pp. 72, 392–451.
(W. A. G. ] derived from the Roman colony of Antium.
ANTHERMUS, sculptor. [BUPALUS. ]
1. L. VALERIUS ANTIAS, was sent with five
ANTHES ("Avons), probably only another form ships in B. c. 215 to convey to Rome the Cartha-
of Anthas. It occurs in Stephanus Byzantius, ginian ambassadors, who bad been captured by the
who calls hin the founder of Anthane in Laconia ; Romans on their way to Philip of Macedonia
and in Plutarch (Quacst. Gr. 19) who says, that (Liv, xxiii. 34. )
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ANTICLEIDES.
18. 5
ANTIGENES.
2. Q. VALERIUS ANTIAS, the Roman historian, 3. 'E{Nyntikos, appears to have been a sort of
was either a descendant of the preceding, or de Dictionary, in which perhaps an explanation of
rived the surname of Antias from his being a those words and phrases was given which occurred
native of Antium, as Pliny states. (H. N. Praef. ) in the ancient stories. (Athen. xi. p. 473, b. c. ) 4.
lle was a contemporary of Quadrigarius, Sisenna, nepl 'Anetávopov, which the second book is
and Rutilius (Vell
. Pat. ii. 9), and lived in the quoted by Diogenes Laërtius. (viii. 11; comp. Plut.
former balf of the first century before Christ. Alex. loc. ) Whether these works were all written
Krause, without mentioning his authority, states by Anticleides of Athens, cannot be decided with
that Antias was praetor in 4. U. C. 676. (B. C. 68. ) certainty.
He wrote the history of Rome from the earliest ANTI'CRATES ('Artikpárns), a Spartan who,
period, relating the stories of Amulius, Rhea Silvia according to Dioscourides (ur. Plut. Ayes. 35),
and the like, down to the time of Sulla. The killed Epaminondas at the battle of Mantinein.
latter period must have been treated at much The descendants of Anticrates are said to have
greater length than the earlier, since he spoke of been called Maxaulwves by the Lacedaemonians,
the quaestorship of Ti. Gracchus (B. C. 137) as early on account of his having struck Epaminondas with
as in the twelfth book (or according to some read a maxaipa (Plut. l. c. ), but Pausanias (viii. 11.
ings in the twenty-second), and the work extended § 4) mentions Machaerion, a Lacedaemonian or
to seventy-five books at least. (Gell. vii. 9. ) Mantinean, to whom this honour was ascribed by
Valerius Antias is frequently referred to by some. Others attribute it to Gryllus, the son of
Livy, who speaks of him as the most lying of all Xenophon. (GRYLLUS. ]
the annalists, and seldom mentions his name with- ANTIDAMAS, or ANTIDAMUS, of Hera-
out terms of reproach. (Comp. iii. 5, xxvi. 49, cleia, wrote in Greek a history of Alexander the
Xxxvi. 38. ) Gellius (vi. 8, vii. 19) too mentions Great and moral works, which are referred to by
cases in which the statements of Antias are op Fulgentius. (s. v. Vespillones, fabre. )
posed to those of all other writers, and there can ANTIDOʻRUS ('Avridwpos), of Lemnos, de-
be little doubt that Livy's judgment is correct. serted to the Greeks in the battle of Artemisium,
Antias was in no difficulty about any of the par- and was rewarded by the Athenians by a piece of
ticulars of the early history: he fabricated the most ground in Salamis. (Herod. viii. 11. )
circumstantial narratives, and was particularly dis- ANTI'DOTUS ('AvridOtos), an Athenian comic
tinguished by his exaggerations in numbers. poet, of whom we know nothing, except that he
Plutarch seems to have drawn much of his early was of the middle comedy, which is evident from
history from him, and Livy too appears to have de the fact that a certain play, the 'Ouola, is ascribed
rived many of his statements from the same source, both to him and to Alexis. (Athen. xiv. p. 642. )
though he was aware of the untrustworthiness of We have the titles of two other plays of his, and
his authority. It is rather curious that Cicero it is thought that his name ought to be restored in
never refers to Valerius Antias. (Comp. Niebuhr, Athenaeus (i. p. 28, e. ) and Pollux (vi. 99). (See
Hist. of Rome, i. pp. 237, 501, 525, &c. , ii. p. 9, Meineke, i. p. 416. )
[P. S. ]
n. 570, iii. pp. 124, 358; Krause, Vitae et Fragm. ANTI'DOTUS, an encaustic painter, the dis
vet. Historic. Latin. p. 266, &c. )
ciple of Euphranor, and teacher of Nicias the Athe-
ANTICLEI'A ('Artikleia), a daughter of Au- nian. His works were few, but carefully executed,
tolycus, wife of Laertes, and mother of Odysseus. and his colouring was somewhat harsh (severior).
(Hom. Ob. xi. 85. ) According to Homer she died He flourished about B. C. 336. (Plin. xxxv. 40.
of grief at the long absence of her son, who met her SS 27, 28. )
[P. S. ]
and spoke with her in Hades. (Od. xv. 356, &c. , ANTIGENES ('Avrigéuns). 1. A general of
xi. 202, &c. ) According to other traditions, she Alexander the Great, also served under Philip,
put an end to her own life after she had heard a and lost an eye at the siege of Perinthus. (B. C.
report of the death of her son. (Hygin. Fab. 243. ) | 340. ) After the death of Alexander be obtained
Hyginus (Fab. 201) also states, that previous to the satrapy of Susiana. He was one of the com-
her marrying Laertes, she lived on intimate terms manders of the Argyraspids (Dict. of Art. s. v. ),
with Sisyphus; whence Euripides (? phig. Aul. 524) and espoused with his troops the side of Eumenes.
calls Odysseus a son of Sisyphus. (Comp. Sophocl. On the defeat of the latter in B. C. 316, Antigenes
Phil. 417; Ov. Met. xiii. 32; Serv. ad Aen. vi. fell into the hands of his enemy Antigonus, and
529. ) It is uncertain whether this Anticleia is the was burnt alive by him. (Plut. Alex. 70; Arrian,
game as the one whose son Periphetes was killed ap. Phot. p. 71, b. Bekk. ; Diod. xviii. 62, xix. 12,
by Theseus. Of this Periphetes she was the mother &c. , 44; Plut. Eum. 13. )
by Hephaestus or by Poseidon. (Apollod. iii. 16. 2. A Greek historian, who spoke of the Ama-
§ 1; Paus.
(L. S. ) his phallophori. (Athen. x. p. 445. ) Hence he
ANTE'NOR ('Artrivwp), the son of Euphranor, is ranked by Athenaeus (1. c. ) as a comic poet, but
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184
ANTHES.
ANTIAS.
&
this is not precisely correct, since he lived before the island of Calnuria was originally called, after
the period when comedy assumed its proper form. him, Anthedonia.
(L. S. ]
It is well observed by Bode (Dram. Dichtkunst. ANTHEUS ('Avdets), the blooming, a surname
ii. p. 16), that Antheas, with his comus of phalio of Dionysus. (Paus. vii. 21. & 2. ) Anthius, a sur-
phori, stands in the same relation to comedy as name which Dionysus bore at Athens, is probably
Arion, with his dithyrambic chorus, to tragedy. only a different form for Antheus. (Paus. i. 31. 82. )
(See also Dict. of Ant. s. 1. Comoediu. ) (P. S. ) There are also two fabulous personages of this
ANTHEDON. (ANTHAS. ]
name. (Hygin. Fab. 157; Virg. Aen, i. 181, 510,
ANTHEIA ("Avdeia), the blooming, or the xii. 443. )
(L. S. )
friend of flowers, a surname of Hera, under which ANTHEUS, a Greek sculptor of considerable
she had a temple at Argos. Before this temple reputation, though not of first-rate excellence,
was the mound under which the women were bu- flourished about 180 B. C. (Plin. xxxiv. 19, where
ried who had come with Dionysus from the Aegean Antheus is a correction for the common reading
jslands, and had fallen in a contest with the Ar Antaeus. )
[P. S. )
gives and Perseus. (Paus. ii. 22. § 1. ) Antheia ANTHIANUS (ANTHUS? ), FURIUS, a
was used at Gnossus as a surname of Aphrodite. Roman jurisconsult, of uncertain date. He was
(Hesych. s. v. )
(L. S. ] probably not later than Severus Alexander. He
ANTHE’LII ('Avoňaoi daiuoves), certain di- wrote a work upon the Edict, which in the Floren-
vinities whose images stood before the doors of tine Index to the Digest is entitled méposéBIKTOV
houses, and were exposed to the sun, whence they Bubala 6te, but there are only three extracts
derived their name. (Aeschyl. Agam. 530; Lobeck, made from it in the Digest, and all of these are
ud Soph. Ajac. 805. )
[L. S. ]
taken from the first book. This has led many to
ANTHEMIUS, emperor of the West, remark hold that the compilers of the Digest possessed
able for his reign exhibiting the last effort of the only an imperfect copy of his work. (P. I. Besier,
Eastern empire to support the sinking fortunes of Diss. de Furio Anthiano, J. C. ejusque fragmentis,
the Western. He was the son of Procopius, and Lug. Bat. 1803. )
[J. T. G. )
son-in-law of the emperor Marcian, and on Ricimer A'NTHIMUS ('Avoluos), bishop of Trapezus
applying to the eastern emperor Leo for a successor in Pontus, was made patriarch of Constantinople
to Majorian in the west, he was in a. D. 467 by the influence of the empress Theodora (A. D.
named for the office, in which he was confirmed 535), and about the same time was drawn over to
at Rome. His daughter was married to Ricimer; the Eutychian heresy by Severus. Soon after his
but a quarrel arising between Anthemius and election to the patriarchate, Agapetus, the bishop
Ricimer, the latter acknowledged Olybrius as em- of Rome, came to Constantinople, and obtained
peror, and laid siege to Rome, which he took by from the emperor Justinian a sentence of deposi-
storm in 473. Anthemius perished in the assault
. tion against Anthimus, which was confirmed by a
His private life, which seems to have been good, synod held at Constantinople under Mennas, the
is given in the panegyric upon him by Sidonius successor of Anthimus. (A. D. 536 ; Novell. 42;
Apollonius, whom he patronized ; bis public life in Mansi, Nova Collect. Concil
. viii. pp. 821, 869,
Jornandes (cle Reb. Get. c. 45), Marcellinus (Chron. ), 1149-1158; Labbe, v. ; AGAPETL's. ) Some frag-
and Theophanes (p. 101). See Gibbon, Decline ments of the debate between Anthimus and Aga-
und Fall c. 36.
(A. P. S. ] petus in the presence of Justinian are preserved in
ANTHEMIUS ('Avoémios), an eminent mathe the Acts of the Councils.
[P. S. )
matician and architect, born at Tralles, in Lydia, ANTHIPPUS ("AVOITTOS), a Greek comic poet,
in the sixth century after Christ. His father's a play of whose is cited by Athenaeus (ix. p. 403),
name was Stephanus, who was a physician (Alex. where, however, we ought perhaps to read Avalir.
Trall. iv. 1, p. 198); one of his brothers was the *9. (ANAXIPPUS. )
(P. S. )
celebrated Alexander Trallianus; and Agathias ANTHUS ("Avoos), a son of Autonous and
mentions (Hisi. v. p. 149), that his three other Hippodameia, who was torn to pieces by the horses
brothers, Dioscorus, Metrodorus, and Olympius, of his father, and was metamorphosed into a bird
were each eminent in their several professions, which imitated the neighing of a horse, but always
He was one of the architects employed by the fled from the sight of a horse. (Anton. Lib. 1 ;
emperor Justinian in the building of the church of Plin. H. N. x. 57. )
(L. S. )
St. Sophia, A. D. 532 (Procop. in Combefis. Manip. A'NTIA GENS, of which the cognomens are
Rerum CPol. p. 284; Agath. Hist. v. p. 149, Briso and Restio, seems to have been of con-
&c. ; Du Cange, CPolis Christ. lib. ii. p. 11; siderable antiquity. The only person of this name,
Anselm. Bandur. ad Antiq. CPol. p. 77:2), and who has no cognomen, is Sp. ANTIUS.
to him Eutocius dedicated his Commentary on ANTIANEIRA ('Avriáveipa). 1. The mother
the Conica of Apollonius. A fragment of one of of the Argonaut Idmon by Apollo. (Orph. Ary.
his mathematical works was published at Paris, 187. ) The scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (i.
4to. by M. Dupuy, 1777, with the title “ Frag- 139), however, calls Asteria the mother of Idmon.
ment d'un Ouvrage Grec d'Anthemius sur des 2. A daughter of Menelaus, and mother of the
* Paradoxes de Mécanique ;'_revu et corrigé sur Argonauts Eurytus and Echiones, whom she bore
quatre Manuscrits, avec une Traduction Françoise to Hermes. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 56 ; Hygin. Fale
et des Notes. ” It is also to be found in the forts- | 14. )
[L. S. )
second volume of the Hist. de l'Acad. des Inscr.
A'NTIAS, a cognomen of the Valeria Gens,
1786, pp. 72, 392–451.
(W. A. G. ] derived from the Roman colony of Antium.
ANTHERMUS, sculptor. [BUPALUS. ]
1. L. VALERIUS ANTIAS, was sent with five
ANTHES ("Avons), probably only another form ships in B. c. 215 to convey to Rome the Cartha-
of Anthas. It occurs in Stephanus Byzantius, ginian ambassadors, who bad been captured by the
who calls hin the founder of Anthane in Laconia ; Romans on their way to Philip of Macedonia
and in Plutarch (Quacst. Gr. 19) who says, that (Liv, xxiii. 34. )
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ANTICLEIDES.
18. 5
ANTIGENES.
2. Q. VALERIUS ANTIAS, the Roman historian, 3. 'E{Nyntikos, appears to have been a sort of
was either a descendant of the preceding, or de Dictionary, in which perhaps an explanation of
rived the surname of Antias from his being a those words and phrases was given which occurred
native of Antium, as Pliny states. (H. N. Praef. ) in the ancient stories. (Athen. xi. p. 473, b. c. ) 4.
lle was a contemporary of Quadrigarius, Sisenna, nepl 'Anetávopov, which the second book is
and Rutilius (Vell
. Pat. ii. 9), and lived in the quoted by Diogenes Laërtius. (viii. 11; comp. Plut.
former balf of the first century before Christ. Alex. loc. ) Whether these works were all written
Krause, without mentioning his authority, states by Anticleides of Athens, cannot be decided with
that Antias was praetor in 4. U. C. 676. (B. C. 68. ) certainty.
He wrote the history of Rome from the earliest ANTI'CRATES ('Artikpárns), a Spartan who,
period, relating the stories of Amulius, Rhea Silvia according to Dioscourides (ur. Plut. Ayes. 35),
and the like, down to the time of Sulla. The killed Epaminondas at the battle of Mantinein.
latter period must have been treated at much The descendants of Anticrates are said to have
greater length than the earlier, since he spoke of been called Maxaulwves by the Lacedaemonians,
the quaestorship of Ti. Gracchus (B. C. 137) as early on account of his having struck Epaminondas with
as in the twelfth book (or according to some read a maxaipa (Plut. l. c. ), but Pausanias (viii. 11.
ings in the twenty-second), and the work extended § 4) mentions Machaerion, a Lacedaemonian or
to seventy-five books at least. (Gell. vii. 9. ) Mantinean, to whom this honour was ascribed by
Valerius Antias is frequently referred to by some. Others attribute it to Gryllus, the son of
Livy, who speaks of him as the most lying of all Xenophon. (GRYLLUS. ]
the annalists, and seldom mentions his name with- ANTIDAMAS, or ANTIDAMUS, of Hera-
out terms of reproach. (Comp. iii. 5, xxvi. 49, cleia, wrote in Greek a history of Alexander the
Xxxvi. 38. ) Gellius (vi. 8, vii. 19) too mentions Great and moral works, which are referred to by
cases in which the statements of Antias are op Fulgentius. (s. v. Vespillones, fabre. )
posed to those of all other writers, and there can ANTIDOʻRUS ('Avridwpos), of Lemnos, de-
be little doubt that Livy's judgment is correct. serted to the Greeks in the battle of Artemisium,
Antias was in no difficulty about any of the par- and was rewarded by the Athenians by a piece of
ticulars of the early history: he fabricated the most ground in Salamis. (Herod. viii. 11. )
circumstantial narratives, and was particularly dis- ANTI'DOTUS ('AvridOtos), an Athenian comic
tinguished by his exaggerations in numbers. poet, of whom we know nothing, except that he
Plutarch seems to have drawn much of his early was of the middle comedy, which is evident from
history from him, and Livy too appears to have de the fact that a certain play, the 'Ouola, is ascribed
rived many of his statements from the same source, both to him and to Alexis. (Athen. xiv. p. 642. )
though he was aware of the untrustworthiness of We have the titles of two other plays of his, and
his authority. It is rather curious that Cicero it is thought that his name ought to be restored in
never refers to Valerius Antias. (Comp. Niebuhr, Athenaeus (i. p. 28, e. ) and Pollux (vi. 99). (See
Hist. of Rome, i. pp. 237, 501, 525, &c. , ii. p. 9, Meineke, i. p. 416. )
[P. S. ]
n. 570, iii. pp. 124, 358; Krause, Vitae et Fragm. ANTI'DOTUS, an encaustic painter, the dis
vet. Historic. Latin. p. 266, &c. )
ciple of Euphranor, and teacher of Nicias the Athe-
ANTICLEI'A ('Artikleia), a daughter of Au- nian. His works were few, but carefully executed,
tolycus, wife of Laertes, and mother of Odysseus. and his colouring was somewhat harsh (severior).
(Hom. Ob. xi. 85. ) According to Homer she died He flourished about B. C. 336. (Plin. xxxv. 40.
of grief at the long absence of her son, who met her SS 27, 28. )
[P. S. ]
and spoke with her in Hades. (Od. xv. 356, &c. , ANTIGENES ('Avrigéuns). 1. A general of
xi. 202, &c. ) According to other traditions, she Alexander the Great, also served under Philip,
put an end to her own life after she had heard a and lost an eye at the siege of Perinthus. (B. C.
report of the death of her son. (Hygin. Fab. 243. ) | 340. ) After the death of Alexander be obtained
Hyginus (Fab. 201) also states, that previous to the satrapy of Susiana. He was one of the com-
her marrying Laertes, she lived on intimate terms manders of the Argyraspids (Dict. of Art. s. v. ),
with Sisyphus; whence Euripides (? phig. Aul. 524) and espoused with his troops the side of Eumenes.
calls Odysseus a son of Sisyphus. (Comp. Sophocl. On the defeat of the latter in B. C. 316, Antigenes
Phil. 417; Ov. Met. xiii. 32; Serv. ad Aen. vi. fell into the hands of his enemy Antigonus, and
529. ) It is uncertain whether this Anticleia is the was burnt alive by him. (Plut. Alex. 70; Arrian,
game as the one whose son Periphetes was killed ap. Phot. p. 71, b. Bekk. ; Diod. xviii. 62, xix. 12,
by Theseus. Of this Periphetes she was the mother &c. , 44; Plut. Eum. 13. )
by Hephaestus or by Poseidon. (Apollod. iii. 16. 2. A Greek historian, who spoke of the Ama-
§ 1; Paus.
