) to one of
one of the three sons of Odysseus by Circe, from the Antiochi, by Valerius Maximus (ii.
one of the three sons of Odysseus by Circe, from the Antiochi, by Valerius Maximus (ii.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
iii.
89; Ov.
16.
397.
) nary, to harass the Athenians and their allies, and
The tornb of Antaeus (Antaci collis), which formed drive them into wishing for the peace. Moreover,
a moderate hill in the shape of a man stretched out he scized Conon, on the pretext that he had un-
at full length, was shewn near the town of Tingis duly used the king's forces for the extension of
11 Mauretania down to a late period (Strab. xvii. Atheuian dominion, and threw him into prison.
p. 829; P. Meli, ii. 10. $ 35, &c. ), and it was be- (CUNon. ) Tiribazus was detained at court by the
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ANTALCIDAS.
ANTANDER.
*
king, to whom he had gone to give a report of his I thin peace, against them will I war, with such as
measures, and was superseded for a time in his rccrde to these terins, both by land and loy sein,
satrapy by Struthas, a warm friend of Athens. both with ships and with money. " (Tidl. v. I.
The war therefore continued for some years; but $ 31. ) To these terins all the parties concerned
in B. c. 308 the state of affairs appeared to give readily acceded, if we except a brief and ineffectuid
promise of success if a fresh negotiation with Per- delay on the part of Thebes and the united govern-
sia were attempted. Tiribazus had returned to ment of Argos and Corinth (Hell. v. 1. & 32-34);
his former government, Pharnabazus, the opponent and thus was concluded, B. C. 387, the famous
of Spartan interests, had gone up to the capital to peace of Antalcidas, so called as being the fruit of
marry Apama, the king's daughter, and had en- his masterly diplomacy. That the peace effectually
trusted his government to Ariobarzanes, with provided for the interests of Sparta, is beyond a
whom Anualeidas bad a connexion of hospitality doubt (Hell. v. 1. 36); that it was cordially
(ξένος εκ παλαιού). Under these circumstances, cherished by most of the other Grecian states as a
Antalcidas was once more sent to Asia both as sort of bulwark and charter of freedom, is no less
commander of the fleet (vavap xos), and ambassador. certain. (Id. vi. 3. 9, 12, 18, vi. 5. 62; Paus.
(Hell. v. 1. $ 6, 28. ) On his arrival at Ephesus, ix. 1. ) On the subject of the pence, see Thirlwall,
he gave the charge of the squadron to Nicolochus, Gr. Ilist. vol. iv. p. 445; Mitford, ch. 25. sec. 7,
as his lieutenant (Totodeus), and sent him to aid ch. 27. sec. 2.
Abydus and keep Iphicrates in check, while he Our notices of the rest of the life of Antalcidas
himself went to Tiribazus, and possibly proceeded are scattered and doubtful. From a passing allu-
with him to the court of Artaxerxes on the more sion in the speech of Callistratus the Atheniin
important business of his mission. In this he was (Hell. vi. 3. 12), we learn that he was then
completely successful, having prevailed on the king (B. C. 371) absent on another mission to Persia.
to aid Sparta in forcing, if necessary, the Athenians Might this have been with a view to the negotia-
and their allies to accede to peace on the terms tion of peace in Greece (see Hell, vi. 3), and like-
which Persia, acting under Spartan influence, wise have been connected with some alarm at the
should dictate. On his return however to the sea- probable interest of Timotheus, son of Conon, at
coast, he received intelligence that Nicolochus was the Persian court? (See Diod. xv. 50; Dem.
blockaded in the harbour of Abydus by Iphicrates c. Timoth. p. 1191; Thirlwall, vol. v. p. 63. ) Plu-
and Diotimus. He accordingly proceeded by land tarch again (Ages. p. 613, e. ) mentions, as a state-
to Abydus, whence he sailed out with the squad- ment of some persons, that at the time of the in-
ron by night, having spread a report that the vasion of Laconia by Epaminondas, B. c. 369,
Chalcedonians had sent to him for aid. Sailing Antalcidas was one of the ephors, and that, fearing
northward, he stopped at Percope, and when the the capture of Sparta, he conveyed his children for
Athenians had passed that place in fancied pursuit safety to Cythera. The same author informs us
of him, he returned to Abydus, where he hoped to (Artax. p. 1022, d. ), that Antalcidas was sent to
be strengthened by a reinforcement of twenty ships Persia for supplies after the defeat at Leuctra, B. C.
from Syracuse and Italy. But hearing that Thra- 371, and was coldly and superciliously received by
sybulus (of Colyttus, not the hero of Phyle) was the king. If, considering the general looseness of
advancing from Thrace with eight ships to join the statement which pervades this portion of Plutarch,
Athenian fleet, he put out to sea, and succeeded it were allowable to set the date of this mission
by a stratagem in capturing the whole squadron. after the invasion of 369, we might possibly con-
(Hell. v. 1. $ 25-27; Polyaen. ii. 4, and Schneider nect with it the attempt at pacification on the side
in loc. X'en. ) He was soon after joined by the ex- of Persia in 368. (Hell. vii. 1. $ 27; Diod. xv. 70. )
pected ships from Sicily and Italy, by the fleet of This would seem indeed to be inconsistent with
all the lonian towns of which Tiribazus was mas. Plutarch's account of the treatment of Antalcidas
ter, and even by some which Ariobarzanes fur- by Artaxerxes; but that might perhaps be no
nished from the satrapy of Pharnabazus. Antal- overwhelming objection to our hypothesis. (Sec,
cidas thus commanded the sea, which, together however, Thirlwall, vol. v. p. 123, and note. ) If
with the annorance to which Athens was exposed the embassy in question took place immediately
from Aegina (Hell, v. 1. 1—24), made the Athe after the battle of Leuctra, the anecdote (Ages.
nians desirous of peace. The same wish being also 613, e. ) of the ephoralty of Antalcidas in 369 of
strongly felt by Sparta and Argos (see the several course refutes what Plutarch (Artax. 1022, d. )
reasons in Xen. Hell. v. 1. ♡ 29), the summons of would have us infer, that Antalcidas was driven to
Tiribazus for a congress of deputies from such suicide by, his failure in Persia and the ridicule of
states as might be willing to listen to the terms his enemies. But such a story is on other grounds
proposed by the king, was gladly obeyed by all, intrinsically improbable, and savours much of the
and the satrap then read to them the royal decree. period at which Plutarch wrote, when the conduct
This famous document, drawn up with a sufficient of some later Romans, miscalled Stoics, had served
assumption of imperial majesty, ran thus : “ Arta- to give suicide the character of a fashionable re-
xerxes the king thinks it just that the cities in source in cases of distress and perplexity. [E. E. ]
Asia should belong to himself, as well as the is- ANTANDER ("Avtavopos), brother of Agatho-
lands Clazomenae and Cyprus; but that the other cles, king of Syracuse, was a commander of the
Grecian cities, both small and great, he should troops sent by the Syracusans to the relief of Cro
leave independent, except Lemnos and Imbros and tona when besieged by the Brutii in B. c. 317.
Seyros; and that these, as of old, should belong to During his brother's absence in Africa (B. C. 310),
the Athenians. But whichever party receives not he was left together with Erymnon in command of
Syracuse, and wished to surrender it to Hamilcar.
* If we may infer as much from the expression He appears, however, to have still retnined, or at
which Xenophon afterwards uses (v. i. 25), o de least regained, the confidence of Agathocles, for he
Ανταλκίδας κατέβη μεν μετά Τιριβάζου, κ. τ. λ. is mentioned afterwards as the instrument of his
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ANTENOR.
183
ANTHEAS.
brother's cruelty. (Diod. xix. 3, xx. 16, 72. ) | an Athenian sculptor, made the first bronze statues
Antander was the author of an historical work, of Harmodins and Aristogeiton, which the othe-
which Diodorus quotes. (Erc. xxi. 12, p. 492, ed. nians set up in the Ceramcicus. (13. C. 509. ) These
Wess. )
statues were carried off to Susa by Xerxes, and
ANTEIA ('Avreia), a daughter of the Lycian their place was supplied by others made either by
king lobates, and wife of Proetus of Argos, by Callias or by Praxiteles. After the conquest of
whom she became the mother of Maera. (Apollod. Persia, Alexander the Great sent the statues back
ii. 2. § 1; Hom. Il. vi. 160; Eustath, ad Ilom. p. to Athens, where they were again set up in the
1688. ) The Greek tragedians call the wife of Cerameicus. (Paus. i. 8. § 5; Arrian. Anal. iii.
Proctus Stheneboea. Respecting her love for 16, vii. 19; Plin. xxxiv. 9; ib. 19. $ 10; Bockh,
Bellerophontes, sec BELLENOPHONTES. [L. S. ] Corp. Inscrip. ii. p. 340. ) The return of the
ANTEIAS or ANTIAS ('Artelas or 'Artías), statues is ascribed by Pausanias (1. c.
) to one of
one of the three sons of Odysseus by Circe, from the Antiochi, by Valerius Maximus (ii. 10, ext.
whom the town of Anteia in Italy was believed to $ 1) to Seleucus; but the account of Arrian, that
have derived its name. (Dionys. Hal. i. 72; Steph. they were returned by Alexander, is to be pre-
Byz. s. v. "Avtela. )
(L. S. ) ferred. (See also Meursii Pisistrat. 14. ) [P. S. ]
P. ANTEIUS was to have had the province of ANTE'NOR ('Avtývwp), a Greek writer of un-
Syria in A. D. 56, but was detained in the city by certain date, wrote a work upon the history of Crete,
Nero. He was bated by Nero on account of his which on account of its excellence was called
intimacy with Agrippina, and was thus compelled Afata, inasmuch as, says Ptolemy Hephaestion
to put an end to his own life in a. D. 57. (Tac. (up. Phot. Cod. 190, p. 151, b. Bekk. ), the
Ann. xiii. 22, xvi. 14. ).
Cretans called that which is good Aéntov. (Aelian,
ANTENOR ('Arthuwp), a Trojan, a son of H. N. xvii. 35; Plut. de Mal. Herod. c. 32. )
Aesyetes and Cleomestra, and husband of Theano, ANTENO'RIDES ('Avonvopídns), a patronymic
by whom he had many children. (Hom. Il. vi
. from Antenor, and applied to his sons and descend-
398; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 349. ) According to the ants. (Virg. Aen. vi. 484 ; Hom. Il. xi. 221. )
Homeric account, he was one of the wisest among At Cyrene, where Antenor according to some ac-
the elders at Troy, and received Menelaus and counts had settled after the destruction of Troy,
Odysseus into his house when they came to Troy the Antenoridae enjoyed heroic honours. (Pind.
as ambassadors. (n. iii. 146, &c. , 203, &c. ) He Pyth. v. 108. )
(L. S. )
also advised his fellow-citizens to restore Helen to ANTEROS. [Eros. ]
Menelaus. (II. vii. 348, &c. ) This is the sub- ANTEVORTA, also called PORRIMA or
stance of all that is said about him in the Homeric PRORSA (Ov. Fast. i. 633; Gell. xvi. 16), toge-
poems; but the suggestion contained therein, that ther with Postvorta, are described either as the
Antenor entertained a friendly disposition towards two sisters or companions of the Roman goddess
the Greeks, has been seized upon and exaggerated Carmenta. (Ov. l. c. ; Macrob. Sat. i. 7. ) It seems
by later writers. Before the Trojan war, he is to be clear, from the manner in which Macrobius
said to have been sent by Priam to Greece to claim speaks of Antevorta and Postvorta, that originally
the surrender of Hesione, who had been carried off they were only two attributes of the one goddess
by the Greeks; but this mission was not followed Carmenta, the former describing her knowledge of
by any favourable result. (Dares Phryg. 5. ) When the future and the latter that of the past, analogous
Menelaus and Odysseus came to Troy, they would to the two-headed Janus. But that in later times
have been killed by the sons of Priam, had it not Antevorta and Postvorta were regarded as two dis-
been for the protection which Antenor afforded them. tinct beings, companions of Carmenta, or as two
(Dict. Cret. i. 11. ). Just before the taking of Troy Carmentae, is expressly said by Varro (ap. Gell.
his friendship for the Greeks assumes the character I. c. ), Ovid, and Macrobius. According to Varro,
of treachery towards his own country; for when who also says, that they had two altars at Rome,
sent to Agamemnon to negotiate peace, he devised they were invoked by pregnant women, to avert
with bim and Odysseus a plan of delivering the the dangers of child-birth.
(L. S. ]
city, and even the palladium, into their hands. ANTHAEUS ('Aveaios) or Antaeus, a physi-
(Dict. Cret. iv. 22, v. 8 ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 246, 651, cian, whose ridiculous and superstitious remedy
ii. 15; Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 339; Suidas, s. r. for hydrophobia is mentioned by Pliny. (H. N.
Faládiov. ) When Troy was plundered, the skin xxviii. 2. ) One of his prescriptions is preserved
of a panther was hung up at the door of Antenor's by Galen. (De Compos. Medicum. sc. Locos, iv. 8.
house, as a sign for the Greeks not to commit any vol. xii. p. 764. ) Nothing is known of the events
outrage upon it. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. v. 108; Paus. of his life, but, as Pliny mentions him, he must
x. 17 ; Sirab. xiii. p. 608. ) His history after this have lived some time in or before the first century
event is related differently. Dictys (v. 17; comp. after Christ.
(W. A. G. ]
Serv. ad Aen. ix. 264) states, that he founded a ANTHAS ('Avdás), a son of Poseidon and Al-
new kingdom at Troy upon and out of the rem- cyone, the daughter of Atlas. He was king of
nants of the old one; and according to others, he Troezen, and believed to have built the town of
embarked with Menelaus and Helen, was carried Antheia, and according to a Boeotian tradition, the
to Libya, and settled at Cyrene (Pind. Pyth. v. town of Anthedon also. Other accounts stated, that
110); or he went with the Heneti to Thrace, and Anthedon derived its name from a nymph Anthedon.
thence to the western coast of the Adriatic, where (Paus. ii. 30. § 7, &c. , ix. 22. & 5. ) [L. S. ]
the foundation of several towns is ascribed to him. ANTHEAS LI'NDIUS ("Avőeas ), a Greek
(Strab. l. c. ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 1; Liv. i. 1. ) An- poet, of Lindus in Rhodes, flourished about B. C.
tenor with his family and his house, on which the 596. He was one of the earliest eminent composers of
panther's skin was seen, was painted in the Lesche phallic songs, which he himself sung at the head of
at Delphi. (Paus. l. c. ),
(L. S. ) his phallophori. (Athen. x. p. 445. ) Hence he
ANTE'NOR ('Artrivwp), the son of Euphranor, is ranked by Athenaeus (1.
The tornb of Antaeus (Antaci collis), which formed drive them into wishing for the peace. Moreover,
a moderate hill in the shape of a man stretched out he scized Conon, on the pretext that he had un-
at full length, was shewn near the town of Tingis duly used the king's forces for the extension of
11 Mauretania down to a late period (Strab. xvii. Atheuian dominion, and threw him into prison.
p. 829; P. Meli, ii. 10. $ 35, &c. ), and it was be- (CUNon. ) Tiribazus was detained at court by the
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182
ANTALCIDAS.
ANTANDER.
*
king, to whom he had gone to give a report of his I thin peace, against them will I war, with such as
measures, and was superseded for a time in his rccrde to these terins, both by land and loy sein,
satrapy by Struthas, a warm friend of Athens. both with ships and with money. " (Tidl. v. I.
The war therefore continued for some years; but $ 31. ) To these terins all the parties concerned
in B. c. 308 the state of affairs appeared to give readily acceded, if we except a brief and ineffectuid
promise of success if a fresh negotiation with Per- delay on the part of Thebes and the united govern-
sia were attempted. Tiribazus had returned to ment of Argos and Corinth (Hell. v. 1. & 32-34);
his former government, Pharnabazus, the opponent and thus was concluded, B. C. 387, the famous
of Spartan interests, had gone up to the capital to peace of Antalcidas, so called as being the fruit of
marry Apama, the king's daughter, and had en- his masterly diplomacy. That the peace effectually
trusted his government to Ariobarzanes, with provided for the interests of Sparta, is beyond a
whom Anualeidas bad a connexion of hospitality doubt (Hell. v. 1. 36); that it was cordially
(ξένος εκ παλαιού). Under these circumstances, cherished by most of the other Grecian states as a
Antalcidas was once more sent to Asia both as sort of bulwark and charter of freedom, is no less
commander of the fleet (vavap xos), and ambassador. certain. (Id. vi. 3. 9, 12, 18, vi. 5. 62; Paus.
(Hell. v. 1. $ 6, 28. ) On his arrival at Ephesus, ix. 1. ) On the subject of the pence, see Thirlwall,
he gave the charge of the squadron to Nicolochus, Gr. Ilist. vol. iv. p. 445; Mitford, ch. 25. sec. 7,
as his lieutenant (Totodeus), and sent him to aid ch. 27. sec. 2.
Abydus and keep Iphicrates in check, while he Our notices of the rest of the life of Antalcidas
himself went to Tiribazus, and possibly proceeded are scattered and doubtful. From a passing allu-
with him to the court of Artaxerxes on the more sion in the speech of Callistratus the Atheniin
important business of his mission. In this he was (Hell. vi. 3. 12), we learn that he was then
completely successful, having prevailed on the king (B. C. 371) absent on another mission to Persia.
to aid Sparta in forcing, if necessary, the Athenians Might this have been with a view to the negotia-
and their allies to accede to peace on the terms tion of peace in Greece (see Hell, vi. 3), and like-
which Persia, acting under Spartan influence, wise have been connected with some alarm at the
should dictate. On his return however to the sea- probable interest of Timotheus, son of Conon, at
coast, he received intelligence that Nicolochus was the Persian court? (See Diod. xv. 50; Dem.
blockaded in the harbour of Abydus by Iphicrates c. Timoth. p. 1191; Thirlwall, vol. v. p. 63. ) Plu-
and Diotimus. He accordingly proceeded by land tarch again (Ages. p. 613, e. ) mentions, as a state-
to Abydus, whence he sailed out with the squad- ment of some persons, that at the time of the in-
ron by night, having spread a report that the vasion of Laconia by Epaminondas, B. c. 369,
Chalcedonians had sent to him for aid. Sailing Antalcidas was one of the ephors, and that, fearing
northward, he stopped at Percope, and when the the capture of Sparta, he conveyed his children for
Athenians had passed that place in fancied pursuit safety to Cythera. The same author informs us
of him, he returned to Abydus, where he hoped to (Artax. p. 1022, d. ), that Antalcidas was sent to
be strengthened by a reinforcement of twenty ships Persia for supplies after the defeat at Leuctra, B. C.
from Syracuse and Italy. But hearing that Thra- 371, and was coldly and superciliously received by
sybulus (of Colyttus, not the hero of Phyle) was the king. If, considering the general looseness of
advancing from Thrace with eight ships to join the statement which pervades this portion of Plutarch,
Athenian fleet, he put out to sea, and succeeded it were allowable to set the date of this mission
by a stratagem in capturing the whole squadron. after the invasion of 369, we might possibly con-
(Hell. v. 1. $ 25-27; Polyaen. ii. 4, and Schneider nect with it the attempt at pacification on the side
in loc. X'en. ) He was soon after joined by the ex- of Persia in 368. (Hell. vii. 1. $ 27; Diod. xv. 70. )
pected ships from Sicily and Italy, by the fleet of This would seem indeed to be inconsistent with
all the lonian towns of which Tiribazus was mas. Plutarch's account of the treatment of Antalcidas
ter, and even by some which Ariobarzanes fur- by Artaxerxes; but that might perhaps be no
nished from the satrapy of Pharnabazus. Antal- overwhelming objection to our hypothesis. (Sec,
cidas thus commanded the sea, which, together however, Thirlwall, vol. v. p. 123, and note. ) If
with the annorance to which Athens was exposed the embassy in question took place immediately
from Aegina (Hell, v. 1. 1—24), made the Athe after the battle of Leuctra, the anecdote (Ages.
nians desirous of peace. The same wish being also 613, e. ) of the ephoralty of Antalcidas in 369 of
strongly felt by Sparta and Argos (see the several course refutes what Plutarch (Artax. 1022, d. )
reasons in Xen. Hell. v. 1. ♡ 29), the summons of would have us infer, that Antalcidas was driven to
Tiribazus for a congress of deputies from such suicide by, his failure in Persia and the ridicule of
states as might be willing to listen to the terms his enemies. But such a story is on other grounds
proposed by the king, was gladly obeyed by all, intrinsically improbable, and savours much of the
and the satrap then read to them the royal decree. period at which Plutarch wrote, when the conduct
This famous document, drawn up with a sufficient of some later Romans, miscalled Stoics, had served
assumption of imperial majesty, ran thus : “ Arta- to give suicide the character of a fashionable re-
xerxes the king thinks it just that the cities in source in cases of distress and perplexity. [E. E. ]
Asia should belong to himself, as well as the is- ANTANDER ("Avtavopos), brother of Agatho-
lands Clazomenae and Cyprus; but that the other cles, king of Syracuse, was a commander of the
Grecian cities, both small and great, he should troops sent by the Syracusans to the relief of Cro
leave independent, except Lemnos and Imbros and tona when besieged by the Brutii in B. c. 317.
Seyros; and that these, as of old, should belong to During his brother's absence in Africa (B. C. 310),
the Athenians. But whichever party receives not he was left together with Erymnon in command of
Syracuse, and wished to surrender it to Hamilcar.
* If we may infer as much from the expression He appears, however, to have still retnined, or at
which Xenophon afterwards uses (v. i. 25), o de least regained, the confidence of Agathocles, for he
Ανταλκίδας κατέβη μεν μετά Τιριβάζου, κ. τ. λ. is mentioned afterwards as the instrument of his
## p. 183 (#203) ############################################
ANTENOR.
183
ANTHEAS.
brother's cruelty. (Diod. xix. 3, xx. 16, 72. ) | an Athenian sculptor, made the first bronze statues
Antander was the author of an historical work, of Harmodins and Aristogeiton, which the othe-
which Diodorus quotes. (Erc. xxi. 12, p. 492, ed. nians set up in the Ceramcicus. (13. C. 509. ) These
Wess. )
statues were carried off to Susa by Xerxes, and
ANTEIA ('Avreia), a daughter of the Lycian their place was supplied by others made either by
king lobates, and wife of Proetus of Argos, by Callias or by Praxiteles. After the conquest of
whom she became the mother of Maera. (Apollod. Persia, Alexander the Great sent the statues back
ii. 2. § 1; Hom. Il. vi. 160; Eustath, ad Ilom. p. to Athens, where they were again set up in the
1688. ) The Greek tragedians call the wife of Cerameicus. (Paus. i. 8. § 5; Arrian. Anal. iii.
Proctus Stheneboea. Respecting her love for 16, vii. 19; Plin. xxxiv. 9; ib. 19. $ 10; Bockh,
Bellerophontes, sec BELLENOPHONTES. [L. S. ] Corp. Inscrip. ii. p. 340. ) The return of the
ANTEIAS or ANTIAS ('Artelas or 'Artías), statues is ascribed by Pausanias (1. c.
) to one of
one of the three sons of Odysseus by Circe, from the Antiochi, by Valerius Maximus (ii. 10, ext.
whom the town of Anteia in Italy was believed to $ 1) to Seleucus; but the account of Arrian, that
have derived its name. (Dionys. Hal. i. 72; Steph. they were returned by Alexander, is to be pre-
Byz. s. v. "Avtela. )
(L. S. ) ferred. (See also Meursii Pisistrat. 14. ) [P. S. ]
P. ANTEIUS was to have had the province of ANTE'NOR ('Avtývwp), a Greek writer of un-
Syria in A. D. 56, but was detained in the city by certain date, wrote a work upon the history of Crete,
Nero. He was bated by Nero on account of his which on account of its excellence was called
intimacy with Agrippina, and was thus compelled Afata, inasmuch as, says Ptolemy Hephaestion
to put an end to his own life in a. D. 57. (Tac. (up. Phot. Cod. 190, p. 151, b. Bekk. ), the
Ann. xiii. 22, xvi. 14. ).
Cretans called that which is good Aéntov. (Aelian,
ANTENOR ('Arthuwp), a Trojan, a son of H. N. xvii. 35; Plut. de Mal. Herod. c. 32. )
Aesyetes and Cleomestra, and husband of Theano, ANTENO'RIDES ('Avonvopídns), a patronymic
by whom he had many children. (Hom. Il. vi
. from Antenor, and applied to his sons and descend-
398; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 349. ) According to the ants. (Virg. Aen. vi. 484 ; Hom. Il. xi. 221. )
Homeric account, he was one of the wisest among At Cyrene, where Antenor according to some ac-
the elders at Troy, and received Menelaus and counts had settled after the destruction of Troy,
Odysseus into his house when they came to Troy the Antenoridae enjoyed heroic honours. (Pind.
as ambassadors. (n. iii. 146, &c. , 203, &c. ) He Pyth. v. 108. )
(L. S. )
also advised his fellow-citizens to restore Helen to ANTEROS. [Eros. ]
Menelaus. (II. vii. 348, &c. ) This is the sub- ANTEVORTA, also called PORRIMA or
stance of all that is said about him in the Homeric PRORSA (Ov. Fast. i. 633; Gell. xvi. 16), toge-
poems; but the suggestion contained therein, that ther with Postvorta, are described either as the
Antenor entertained a friendly disposition towards two sisters or companions of the Roman goddess
the Greeks, has been seized upon and exaggerated Carmenta. (Ov. l. c. ; Macrob. Sat. i. 7. ) It seems
by later writers. Before the Trojan war, he is to be clear, from the manner in which Macrobius
said to have been sent by Priam to Greece to claim speaks of Antevorta and Postvorta, that originally
the surrender of Hesione, who had been carried off they were only two attributes of the one goddess
by the Greeks; but this mission was not followed Carmenta, the former describing her knowledge of
by any favourable result. (Dares Phryg. 5. ) When the future and the latter that of the past, analogous
Menelaus and Odysseus came to Troy, they would to the two-headed Janus. But that in later times
have been killed by the sons of Priam, had it not Antevorta and Postvorta were regarded as two dis-
been for the protection which Antenor afforded them. tinct beings, companions of Carmenta, or as two
(Dict. Cret. i. 11. ). Just before the taking of Troy Carmentae, is expressly said by Varro (ap. Gell.
his friendship for the Greeks assumes the character I. c. ), Ovid, and Macrobius. According to Varro,
of treachery towards his own country; for when who also says, that they had two altars at Rome,
sent to Agamemnon to negotiate peace, he devised they were invoked by pregnant women, to avert
with bim and Odysseus a plan of delivering the the dangers of child-birth.
(L. S. ]
city, and even the palladium, into their hands. ANTHAEUS ('Aveaios) or Antaeus, a physi-
(Dict. Cret. iv. 22, v. 8 ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 246, 651, cian, whose ridiculous and superstitious remedy
ii. 15; Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 339; Suidas, s. r. for hydrophobia is mentioned by Pliny. (H. N.
Faládiov. ) When Troy was plundered, the skin xxviii. 2. ) One of his prescriptions is preserved
of a panther was hung up at the door of Antenor's by Galen. (De Compos. Medicum. sc. Locos, iv. 8.
house, as a sign for the Greeks not to commit any vol. xii. p. 764. ) Nothing is known of the events
outrage upon it. (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. v. 108; Paus. of his life, but, as Pliny mentions him, he must
x. 17 ; Sirab. xiii. p. 608. ) His history after this have lived some time in or before the first century
event is related differently. Dictys (v. 17; comp. after Christ.
(W. A. G. ]
Serv. ad Aen. ix. 264) states, that he founded a ANTHAS ('Avdás), a son of Poseidon and Al-
new kingdom at Troy upon and out of the rem- cyone, the daughter of Atlas. He was king of
nants of the old one; and according to others, he Troezen, and believed to have built the town of
embarked with Menelaus and Helen, was carried Antheia, and according to a Boeotian tradition, the
to Libya, and settled at Cyrene (Pind. Pyth. v. town of Anthedon also. Other accounts stated, that
110); or he went with the Heneti to Thrace, and Anthedon derived its name from a nymph Anthedon.
thence to the western coast of the Adriatic, where (Paus. ii. 30. § 7, &c. , ix. 22. & 5. ) [L. S. ]
the foundation of several towns is ascribed to him. ANTHEAS LI'NDIUS ("Avőeas ), a Greek
(Strab. l. c. ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 1; Liv. i. 1. ) An- poet, of Lindus in Rhodes, flourished about B. C.
tenor with his family and his house, on which the 596. He was one of the earliest eminent composers of
panther's skin was seen, was painted in the Lesche phallic songs, which he himself sung at the head of
at Delphi. (Paus. l. c. ),
(L. S. ) his phallophori. (Athen. x. p. 445. ) Hence he
ANTE'NOR ('Artrivwp), the son of Euphranor, is ranked by Athenaeus (1.
