Antron

{{Short description|Town and polis (city-state) of ancient Thessaly}}

{{About|the ancient Greek city|the name|Antron (given name)|the insect|Antron (wasp)}}

{{Infobox ancient site

| name = Antron

| native_name = Ἀντρών

| alternate_name = Fanos

| image = Ruins_of_Antrones.jpg

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| caption = The fortifications of Antron.

| map_type = Greece

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| coordinates = {{Coord|38.971760299024794|23.002169361643908|format=dms|type:landmark_region:GR|display=inline,title}}

| location = Fanos, Glyfa, Stylida

| region = Phthiotis, Greece

| type = Ancient city

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| built = Bronze Age

| abandoned = Roman period

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| cultures = Ancient Greece

| dependency_of = Achaea Phthiotis

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Antron ({{langx|grc|Ἀντρών}}){{Cite Iliad|2.697}}{{Cite Strabo|p. 435.}} or Antrones (Ἀντρῶνες)Demosthenes Phil. iv. p. 133, Reiske. was a town and polis (city-state){{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|page= 713}} of ancient Thessaly in the district Achaea Phthiotis, at the entrance of the Maliac Gulf, and opposite Oreus in Euboea. It is mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad as one of the cities of Protesilaus, and also in the Homeric hymn to Demeter as under the protection of that goddess. It was purchased by Philip II of Macedon, and was taken by the Romans in their war with Perseus of Macedon.{{Cite Livy|42.42, 67.}} It probably owed its long existence to the composition of its rocks, which furnished some of the best millstones in Greece; hence the epithet of πετρήεις ("maritime") given to it in the hymn to Demeter. Off Antron was a sunken rock (ἕρμα ὔφαλον) called the Ὄνος Ἀντρῶνος, or mill-stone of Antron.{{Cite Strabo|IX.5.8; IX.5.14.}}

Modern scholars identify the location of Antron with the modern village of Glyfa.{{Cite Barrington|55}}{{Cite DARE|29304}}