Antheia
Ἄνθεια
Antheia (Ἄνθεια: Eth. Ἀνθεύς).
1.
A town in Messenia, mentioned by Homer (Hom. Il. 9.151), who gives it the epithet Βαθυγείμων, supposed by later writers to be the same as Thuria, though some identified it with Asine. (Strab. viii. p.360; Paus. 4.31.1; Leake, Morea, vol. i. p. 453.)
2.
A town in Troezene, founded by Anthes. (Paus. 2.30.8; Steph. B. sub voce
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4.
A town on the Hellespont, founded by the Milesians and Phocaeans. (Steph. B. sub voce Eustath. ad Hom. p. 743, 22.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.