Anthas
In Greek mythology, Anthas (Ἅνθας), also Anthes (Ἅνθης) was a son of Poseidon and Alcyone, 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.[1]. Anthas was father of at least two sons, Aëtius and Dius, of whom Aëtius was the successor to both his father and uncle, and further co-ruled with Pittheus and Troezen[1]. The descendants of Anthas through Aëtius reputedly founded colonies in Caria: Halicarnassus and Myndus[2], and accordingly the people of Halicarnassus were referred to by the poetic epithet Antheades 'descendants of Anthas'[3]. Alternately, Halicarnassus was founded by Anthas himself[4]. Anthas also was the presumed eponym of Anthedon, over which he was said to have reigned[5], and of Anthana in Laconia[6].
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References
- ^ a b Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 30. 8
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 30. 9
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Athēnai
- ^ Strabo, Geography, 8. 6. 14; 14. 2. 16; Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Halikarnassos
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 22. 5
- ^ 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.