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Anthelii

Ἀνθήλιοι δαίμονες

(Ἀνθήλιοι δαίμονες), certain divinities whose images stood before the doors of houses, and were exposed to the sun, whence they derived their name. (Aeschyl. Agam. 530; Lobeck, ad Soph. Ajac. 805.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.