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Antheus

Ἀνθεύς

(Ἀνθεύς), the blooming, a surname of Dionysus. (Paus. 7.21.2.) Anthius, a surname which Dionysus bore at Athens, is probably only a different form for Antheus. (Paus. 1.31.2.) There are also two fabulous personages of this name. (Hyg. Fab. 157; Verg. A. 1.181, 510, 12.443.)

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.