Anteias (son of Odysseus)

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Anteias ( Greek  Ἀντείας ; also Ἀντίας) is a figure in Greek mythology .

According to the Greek historian Xenagoras , Anteias was a son of Odysseus and the sorceress Kirke . Odysseus gave birth to two other sons named Rhomos and Ardeias . The three brothers founded the cities named after them Antium , Rome and Ardea .

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  1. Xenagoras in Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Antiquitates Romanae 1, 72, 5; Eusebius of Caesarea , Chronicle p. 205 ed. Schoene; Stephanos of Byzantium , Ethnika , s. Anteia .