Antheia (Messenia)

Antheia (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθεια) was a town in ancient Messenia, mentioned in the Iliad by Homer, who gives it the epithet Βαθυγείμων. Homer says it was located in the high meadows between Pherae and Aipeia, and lists it as one of the towns with which Agamemnon wished to make atonement to Achilles.[1] It was supposed by later writers to be the same as Thuria, though some identified it with Asine.[2][3][4]

Some modern scholars treat the site as unlocated;[5] others tentatively identify a location at 37°06′43″N 22°02′28″E.[6]

References
  1. Homer. Iliad. 9.151, 9.293.
  2. Strabo. Geographica. viii. p.360. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. Pausanias. Description of Greece. 4.31.1.
  4. Gustav Hirschfeld: Antheia 1.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Volume I,2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 2362.
  5. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying.
  6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Antheia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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