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In Greek mythology, Anthas or Anthes (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθας, Ἄνθης, romanized: Ánthas, Ánthes) was a son of Poseidon and Alcyone,^[1] 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.^[2] Anthas was father of at least two sons, Aëtius and Dius,^[3] of whom Aëtius was the successor to both his father and uncle, and further co-ruled with Pittheus and Troezen.^[2] The descendants of Anthas through Aëtius reputedly founded colonies in Caria: Halicarnassus and Myndus,^[4] and accordingly the people of Halicarnassus were referred to by the poetic epithet Antheades 'descendants of Anthas'.^[5] Alternately, Halicarnassus was founded by Anthas himself.^[6] Anthas also was the presumed eponym of Anthedon, over which he was said to have reigned,^[1] and of Anthana in Laconia.^[7]

See also

• Anthus

Notes

References

• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.