Anthas
In Greek mythology, Anthas or Anthes ({{langx|grc|Ἄνθας, Ἄνθης|Ánthas, Ánthes}}) 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.Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.30.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 2.30.8] Anthas was father of at least two sons, Aëtius and Dius,Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A96.11 Anthedōn] (for Dius) of whom Aëtius was the successor to both his father and uncle, and further co-ruled with Pittheus and Troezen. The descendants of Anthas through Aëtius reputedly founded colonies in Caria: Halicarnassus and Myndus,Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.30.9&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 2.30.9] and accordingly the people of Halicarnassus were referred to by the poetic epithet Antheades 'descendants of Anthas'.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Athēnai Alternately, Halicarnassus was founded by Anthas himself.Strabo, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+8.6.14&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198 8.6.14] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+14.2.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198 14.2.16]; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A74.6 Halikarnassos] Anthas also was the presumed eponym of Anthedon, over which he was said to have reigned,Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.22.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 9.22.5] and of Anthana in Laconia.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#A95.11 Anthana]: he is further said to have been killed and flayed by Cleomenes I, brother of Leonidas I, however chronologically inadequate that may seem.
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- 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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 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. [https://topostext.org/work/241 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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]