Anthele
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Anthele ( ancient Greek Ανθήλη ) or Anthela was a small ancient place in Fthiotida at the west gate of Thermopylae . He was on the northern slope of the Kallidromo Mountains near the mouth of the Phoinix in the Asopos .
The sanctuary of Demeter Amphiktyonis was near Anthele . The council of an amphictyony , a cultic protection association , met here every autumn . Amphiktyon , the son of Deucalion, was considered the mythical founder of this amphictyony . The council was named Pylaia after Thermopylae. In the sanctuary there was next to the temple of Demeter Amphiktyonis also a stoa and a stadium and a temple for Athena , Heracles and Amphictyon.
Amphictyonia seems to have lasted until the 8th century BC. To go back. Founding members were the Doloper , Thessalian , Ainianen or Oitaier , Magneten , Malier , Phthioten and Perrhäber . Later the Phocians , Lokrians , Dorians, Boeotians and Ionians in Attica and Euboea were added, so that the amphictyonia finally comprised twelve states. Later the council met alternately in Delphi and Anthele. After the First Holy War , the seat of the Amphictyony was moved entirely to Delphi. 339/8 BC In BC Philip II of Macedonia renewed the Demeter temple and had the site expanded. Herodes Atticus built baths in the 2nd century AD, which were fed by the so-called thermal springs of Heracles.
In 1927, the village of Imirbei, about 6.5 km to the north, was renamed after Anthele in Anthili .
literature
- Siegfried Lauffer : Greece. Lexicon of historical sites from the beginning to the present. Weltbild, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-4144-3 , p. 119.
- Gustav Hirschfeld : Anthele . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2363.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herodotus , Histories, 7.200
- ↑ Strabo : Geographica , 9,4,14 (p. 428)
- ↑ Μετονομασίες των Οικισμών της Ελλάδας: Ιμίρμπεη - Ανθήλη
Coordinates: 38 ° 47 ′ 44 ″ N , 22 ° 30 ′ 36 ″ E