of the most
beautiful
of ancient dramas, is still
Gr.
Gr.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
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. ii. 1. $ 4; Hygin. Fab. 38. ) Another zon's visit to Alexander. (Plut. Alex. 46. ) 'There
mythical personage of this name, who married was a grammarian of the same name. (Fabric.
Machaon, the son of Asclepius, is mentioned by Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 34, vi. p. 355. )
Paus. iv. 30. § 2.
(L. S. ] ANTI'GENES ('Avriyéves), the name of at
ANTICLEIDES (Artikelons ), of Athens least three Greek physicians.
(Athen. xi. p. 446, c. ), lived after the time of 1. An inhabitant of Chios, mentioned in one of
Alexander the Great (Plut. Alex. 46), and is fre- the spurious letters of Euripides (Eurip. Epist. 2.
quently referred to by later writers. He wrote, 1. vol. ii. p. 500, ed. Beck), who (if he ever really
Nepi Nootwy, containing an account of the return existed) must have lived in the fifth century B. c.
of the Greeks from their ancient expeditions. 2. One of the followers of Cleophantus, who
(Athen. iv. p. 157, f. , ix. p. 384, d. , xi. p. 466, c. ) must have lived about the middle of the third
Anticleides' statement about the Pelasgians, which century B. C. , as Mnemon, one of his fellow-pupils,
Strabo (v. p. 221) quotes, is probably taken from is known to have lived in the reign of Piolemy
the work on the Mootou. 2. Annard, an account Energetes, B. C. 247-222. (CLEOPHANTUS;
of Delus. (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. i. 1207, 1289. ) Mnemo. . ] One of his works is quoted by Caelius
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186
ANTIGONE.
ANTIGONIDAE.
Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. ü. 10, p. 46), and he one else submitted to this impious command, Anti-
is probably the physician mentioned by Galen gone alono defied the tyrant, and buried the twily
(Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Nat. Hom. ” ii
. 6, vol. of Polyneices. According to Apollodorus (iii. 1.
xv. p. 136), together with several others who lived $1), Creon had her buried alive in the same tomu
about that time, as being celebrated anatomists. with her brother. According to Sophocles, slie
3. One of Galen's contemporaries at Rome in was shut up in a subterraneous cave, where she
the second century after Christ, who was a pupil | killed herself, and Haemon, on hearing of her
of Quintus and Marinus, and had an extensive death, killed himself by her side ; so that Creon too
and lucrative practice. Galen gives an account received his punishment. A different account of
(De Praenot. ad Posth. c. 3. vol. xiv. p. 613) Antigone is given by Hyginus. (Fab. 72. ) Aes-
of their differing in opinion as to the probable chylus and Sophocles made the story of Autigone
result of the illness of the philosopher Eudemus. the subject of tragedies, and that of the latter, one
(Le Clerc, Hist. de la Méd. ; Fabricius, Biblioth.
of the most beautiful of ancient dramas, is still
Gr. vol. xiii. p. 63, ed. vet. ; Haller, Biblioth. extant. Antigone acts a part in other extant dra-
Medic. Pract. tom. i. )
[W. A. G. ] mas also, as in the Seven against Thebes of Aes.
ANTIGE'NIDAS ('Avriyevíðas), a Theban, chylus, in the Oedipus in Colonus of Sophocles,
the son of Satyrus or Dionysius, was a celebrated, and in the Phoenissae of Euripides.
flute-player, and also a poet. He lived in the time A daughter of Eurytion of Phthia, and wife
of Alexander the Great. (Suidas and Harpocrat. of Peleus, by whom she became the mother of
3. v. ; Plut. de Alex. fort. p. 355, a. , de Music. p. Polydora. When Peleus had killed Eurytion
1138, a. ; Cic. Brut. 50 ; Bode, Gesch. d. lyrisch. during the chace, and fled to Acastus at lolcus, he
Dichtkunst d. Hellenen, ii. p. 321, &c. ) His two drew upon himself the hatred of Astydameia, the
daughters, Melo and Satyra, who followed the pro- wife of Acastus. (ACASTUS] In consequence of
fession of their father, are mentioned in an epigram this, she sent a calumniatory message to Antigone,
in the Greek Anthology. (v. 206. )
stating, that Peleus was on the point of marrying
ANTIGNOʻTUS. (ANTIGONUS, sculptor. ) Sterope, a daughter of Acastus. Hereupon Antigone
ANTIGONE ('Artigóvn). 1. A daughter of hung herself in despair. (Apollod. iii. 13. § 1-3. )
Oedipus by his mother Jocaste. She had two bro 3. A daughter of Laomedon and sister of Priam.
thers, Eteocles and Polyneices, and a sister Ismene. She boasted of excelling Hera in the beauty of her
In the tragic story of Oedipus Antigone appears as hair, and was punished for her presumptuous vanity
a noble maiden, with a truly heroic attachment to by being changed into a stork. (Ov. Met. vi. 93. )
her father and brothers. When Oedipus, in des- 4. A daughter of Pheres, married to Pyremus
pair at the fate which had driven him to murder his or Cometes, by whom she became the mother of
father, and commit incest with his mother, had put the Argonaut Asterion. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 35;
out his eyes, and was obliged to quit Thebes, he, Orph. Arg. 161; Hygin. Fab. 14. ) [L. S. ]
went to Attica guided and accompanied by his ANTIGONE ("Avtoyórn), the daughter of
attached daughter Antigone. (Apollod. iii. 5. & 8, Cassander (the brother of Antipater), was the
&c. ) She remained with him till he died in Colo- second wife of Ptolemy Lagus, and the mother of
nus, and then returned to Thebes. Haemon, the Berenice, who married first the Macedonian Philip,
son of Creon, had, according to Apollodorus, died son of Amyntas, and then Ptolemy Soter. (Droy-
before this time, but Sophocles, to suit his own sen, Gesch. d. Nachfolger Alexanders, p. 418, &c. ,
tragic purposes, represents bim as alive and falling and Tab. viii. 3. )
in love with Antigone. When Polyneices, subse- 2. The daughter of Berenice by her first hus-
quently, who had been expelled by bis brother band Philip, and the wife of Pyrrhus. (Plut.
Eteocles, marched against Thebes (in the war of Pyrrh. 4. )
the Seven), and the two brothers had fallen in ANTIGOʻNIDAE, the descendants of Anti-
single combat, Creon, who now succeeded to the gonus, king of Asia. The following genealogical
throne, issued an edict forbidding, under heavy table of this family is taken from Droysen's Ges
penalties, the burial of their bodies. While every chichte der Nachfolger Alexanders.
Antigonus, died B. C. 301. Married Stratonice,
daughter of Corrhaeus.
Philip, died B. C. 306.
Demetrius I. (Poliorcetes), k. of Macedonian
Died B. C. 283. Married
1. Phila, d. of Antipater.
2. Eurydice, widow of Ophellas.
3. Deidameia, d. of Aeacides.
4. An Illyrian.
5. Ptolemais, d. of Ptolemy Soter.
6. Lamia, an Hetaira.
Corrabus.
Phila.
Antigonus Gonatas,
k. of Macedonia.
Died B. c. 239. Married
1. Phila, d. of Seleucus
Nicator.
2. Demo.
Stratonice.
Married
1. Scleucus.
2. Antiochus.
Demetrius,
of Cyrene.
Died B. c. 230.
Married Olympias
of Larissa.
a
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ANTIGONUS.
17
ANTIGONUS.
Halcyoneus.
Echecrates.
Demetrius II. , k. of
Macedonia. Died B. c. 229.
Married
1. Stratonice, d. of Antio
chus Soter.
2. Phthia, d. of Alexander,
the son of Pyrrhus.
Antigonus Doson, k. of
Macedonia. Died B. c. 221.
Married Phthin, the widow
of Demetrius II.
Antigonus.
Apama.
Philip V. king of Macedonia.
Died B. c. 179.
Perscus, k. of Macedonia.
Conquered by the Romans B. C. 168.
1
ANTI'GONUS ('Avriyovos), a Greek writer of Antigonus, and almost placed within his rench
on the history of Italy. (Fest. s. v. Romam ; the throne of Asia. Antipater had appointed Po-
Dionys. Hal. i. 6. ) It has been supposed that the lysperchon regent, to the exclusion of his own son
Antigonus mentioned by Plutarch (Romul. 17) is Cassander, who was dissatisfied with the arrange-
the same as the historian, but the saying there ment of his father, and ciaimed the regency for
quoted belongs to a king Antigonus, and not to the himself. He was supported by Antigonus, and
historian.
(L. S. ] their confederacy was soon afterwards joined by
ANTIGONUS ('Avriyovos), son of ALEX- Ptolemy. But they found a formidable rival in
ANDER, was sent by Perseus, king of Macedonia, Eumenes, who was appointed by Polysperchon to
as ambassador into Boeotia, in B. c. 172, and suc- the command of the troops in Asia.
[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. ii. 1. $ 4; Hygin. Fab. 38. ) Another zon's visit to Alexander. (Plut. Alex. 46. ) 'There
mythical personage of this name, who married was a grammarian of the same name. (Fabric.
Machaon, the son of Asclepius, is mentioned by Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 34, vi. p. 355. )
Paus. iv. 30. § 2.
(L. S. ] ANTI'GENES ('Avriyéves), the name of at
ANTICLEIDES (Artikelons ), of Athens least three Greek physicians.
(Athen. xi. p. 446, c. ), lived after the time of 1. An inhabitant of Chios, mentioned in one of
Alexander the Great (Plut. Alex. 46), and is fre- the spurious letters of Euripides (Eurip. Epist. 2.
quently referred to by later writers. He wrote, 1. vol. ii. p. 500, ed. Beck), who (if he ever really
Nepi Nootwy, containing an account of the return existed) must have lived in the fifth century B. c.
of the Greeks from their ancient expeditions. 2. One of the followers of Cleophantus, who
(Athen. iv. p. 157, f. , ix. p. 384, d. , xi. p. 466, c. ) must have lived about the middle of the third
Anticleides' statement about the Pelasgians, which century B. C. , as Mnemon, one of his fellow-pupils,
Strabo (v. p. 221) quotes, is probably taken from is known to have lived in the reign of Piolemy
the work on the Mootou. 2. Annard, an account Energetes, B. C. 247-222. (CLEOPHANTUS;
of Delus. (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. i. 1207, 1289. ) Mnemo. . ] One of his works is quoted by Caelius
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186
ANTIGONE.
ANTIGONIDAE.
Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. ü. 10, p. 46), and he one else submitted to this impious command, Anti-
is probably the physician mentioned by Galen gone alono defied the tyrant, and buried the twily
(Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Nat. Hom. ” ii
. 6, vol. of Polyneices. According to Apollodorus (iii. 1.
xv. p. 136), together with several others who lived $1), Creon had her buried alive in the same tomu
about that time, as being celebrated anatomists. with her brother. According to Sophocles, slie
3. One of Galen's contemporaries at Rome in was shut up in a subterraneous cave, where she
the second century after Christ, who was a pupil | killed herself, and Haemon, on hearing of her
of Quintus and Marinus, and had an extensive death, killed himself by her side ; so that Creon too
and lucrative practice. Galen gives an account received his punishment. A different account of
(De Praenot. ad Posth. c. 3. vol. xiv. p. 613) Antigone is given by Hyginus. (Fab. 72. ) Aes-
of their differing in opinion as to the probable chylus and Sophocles made the story of Autigone
result of the illness of the philosopher Eudemus. the subject of tragedies, and that of the latter, one
(Le Clerc, Hist. de la Méd. ; Fabricius, Biblioth.
of the most beautiful of ancient dramas, is still
Gr. vol. xiii. p. 63, ed. vet. ; Haller, Biblioth. extant. Antigone acts a part in other extant dra-
Medic. Pract. tom. i. )
[W. A. G. ] mas also, as in the Seven against Thebes of Aes.
ANTIGE'NIDAS ('Avriyevíðas), a Theban, chylus, in the Oedipus in Colonus of Sophocles,
the son of Satyrus or Dionysius, was a celebrated, and in the Phoenissae of Euripides.
flute-player, and also a poet. He lived in the time A daughter of Eurytion of Phthia, and wife
of Alexander the Great. (Suidas and Harpocrat. of Peleus, by whom she became the mother of
3. v. ; Plut. de Alex. fort. p. 355, a. , de Music. p. Polydora. When Peleus had killed Eurytion
1138, a. ; Cic. Brut. 50 ; Bode, Gesch. d. lyrisch. during the chace, and fled to Acastus at lolcus, he
Dichtkunst d. Hellenen, ii. p. 321, &c. ) His two drew upon himself the hatred of Astydameia, the
daughters, Melo and Satyra, who followed the pro- wife of Acastus. (ACASTUS] In consequence of
fession of their father, are mentioned in an epigram this, she sent a calumniatory message to Antigone,
in the Greek Anthology. (v. 206. )
stating, that Peleus was on the point of marrying
ANTIGNOʻTUS. (ANTIGONUS, sculptor. ) Sterope, a daughter of Acastus. Hereupon Antigone
ANTIGONE ('Artigóvn). 1. A daughter of hung herself in despair. (Apollod. iii. 13. § 1-3. )
Oedipus by his mother Jocaste. She had two bro 3. A daughter of Laomedon and sister of Priam.
thers, Eteocles and Polyneices, and a sister Ismene. She boasted of excelling Hera in the beauty of her
In the tragic story of Oedipus Antigone appears as hair, and was punished for her presumptuous vanity
a noble maiden, with a truly heroic attachment to by being changed into a stork. (Ov. Met. vi. 93. )
her father and brothers. When Oedipus, in des- 4. A daughter of Pheres, married to Pyremus
pair at the fate which had driven him to murder his or Cometes, by whom she became the mother of
father, and commit incest with his mother, had put the Argonaut Asterion. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 35;
out his eyes, and was obliged to quit Thebes, he, Orph. Arg. 161; Hygin. Fab. 14. ) [L. S. ]
went to Attica guided and accompanied by his ANTIGONE ("Avtoyórn), the daughter of
attached daughter Antigone. (Apollod. iii. 5. & 8, Cassander (the brother of Antipater), was the
&c. ) She remained with him till he died in Colo- second wife of Ptolemy Lagus, and the mother of
nus, and then returned to Thebes. Haemon, the Berenice, who married first the Macedonian Philip,
son of Creon, had, according to Apollodorus, died son of Amyntas, and then Ptolemy Soter. (Droy-
before this time, but Sophocles, to suit his own sen, Gesch. d. Nachfolger Alexanders, p. 418, &c. ,
tragic purposes, represents bim as alive and falling and Tab. viii. 3. )
in love with Antigone. When Polyneices, subse- 2. The daughter of Berenice by her first hus-
quently, who had been expelled by bis brother band Philip, and the wife of Pyrrhus. (Plut.
Eteocles, marched against Thebes (in the war of Pyrrh. 4. )
the Seven), and the two brothers had fallen in ANTIGOʻNIDAE, the descendants of Anti-
single combat, Creon, who now succeeded to the gonus, king of Asia. The following genealogical
throne, issued an edict forbidding, under heavy table of this family is taken from Droysen's Ges
penalties, the burial of their bodies. While every chichte der Nachfolger Alexanders.
Antigonus, died B. C. 301. Married Stratonice,
daughter of Corrhaeus.
Philip, died B. C. 306.
Demetrius I. (Poliorcetes), k. of Macedonian
Died B. C. 283. Married
1. Phila, d. of Antipater.
2. Eurydice, widow of Ophellas.
3. Deidameia, d. of Aeacides.
4. An Illyrian.
5. Ptolemais, d. of Ptolemy Soter.
6. Lamia, an Hetaira.
Corrabus.
Phila.
Antigonus Gonatas,
k. of Macedonia.
Died B. c. 239. Married
1. Phila, d. of Seleucus
Nicator.
2. Demo.
Stratonice.
Married
1. Scleucus.
2. Antiochus.
Demetrius,
of Cyrene.
Died B. c. 230.
Married Olympias
of Larissa.
a
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ANTIGONUS.
17
ANTIGONUS.
Halcyoneus.
Echecrates.
Demetrius II. , k. of
Macedonia. Died B. c. 229.
Married
1. Stratonice, d. of Antio
chus Soter.
2. Phthia, d. of Alexander,
the son of Pyrrhus.
Antigonus Doson, k. of
Macedonia. Died B. c. 221.
Married Phthin, the widow
of Demetrius II.
Antigonus.
Apama.
Philip V. king of Macedonia.
Died B. c. 179.
Perscus, k. of Macedonia.
Conquered by the Romans B. C. 168.
1
ANTI'GONUS ('Avriyovos), a Greek writer of Antigonus, and almost placed within his rench
on the history of Italy. (Fest. s. v. Romam ; the throne of Asia. Antipater had appointed Po-
Dionys. Hal. i. 6. ) It has been supposed that the lysperchon regent, to the exclusion of his own son
Antigonus mentioned by Plutarch (Romul. 17) is Cassander, who was dissatisfied with the arrange-
the same as the historian, but the saying there ment of his father, and ciaimed the regency for
quoted belongs to a king Antigonus, and not to the himself. He was supported by Antigonus, and
historian.
(L. S. ] their confederacy was soon afterwards joined by
ANTIGONUS ('Avriyovos), son of ALEX- Ptolemy. But they found a formidable rival in
ANDER, was sent by Perseus, king of Macedonia, Eumenes, who was appointed by Polysperchon to
as ambassador into Boeotia, in B. c. 172, and suc- the command of the troops in Asia.
