Editing Antaeus (section)

===Location in Africa===
Antaeus is placed in the interior desert of [[ancient Libya|Libya]].<ref>I. Malkin, ''Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean'', 1994:181-87, giving sources, noted in Robin Lane Fox, ''Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer'', 2008:182 and note 51.</ref> He was probably incorporated into Greek mythology after the Greek colonization of Cyrenaica in the mid-seventh century BC.<ref name="trail_odysseus"/>

[[File:Msoura.jpg|thumb|left|Msoura in 1830]]
A location for Antaeus somewhere far within the [[Berber world]] might be quite flexible in longitude: when the Roman commander [[Quintus Sertorius]] crossed from Hispania to North Africa, he was told by the residents of [[Tingis]] ([[Tangier]]), far to the west of Libya, that the gigantic remains of Antaeus would be found within a certain [[tumulus]]; digging it open, his men found giant bones; closing the site, Sertorius made propitiatory offerings and "helped to magnify the tomb's reputation".<ref>Fox 2008:182, noting [[Plutarch]], ''Sertorius'' 9.3–4.Fox 2008:182</ref> It is proposed that this monument is the [[Msoura]] stone circle, 50&nbsp;km from Tangier.<ref>[http://www.minculture.gov.ma/fr/Tertre%20de%20Mzora.htm Tertre de M'zora] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040624040440/http://www.minculture.gov.ma/fr/Tertre%20de%20Mzora.htm |date=2004-06-24 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref> In Book IV of [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus]]' [[epic poem]] ''[[Pharsalia]]'' (c. AD 65-61), the story of [[Heracles]]' victory over Antaeus is told to the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Gaius Scribonius Curio (praetor 49 BC)|Curio]] by an unnamed Libyan citizen. The learned client king [[Juba II]] (died 23 BC), husband of the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra, claimed his descent from a liaison of Heracles with Tinga, the consort of Antaeus.<ref>[[Strabo]], 17.3.8 noted in D.W. Roller, ''The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene'', 2003:54 and 154, and by Fox 2008:182.</ref><ref>[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' 5.2–3</ref> In his ''Life of Sertorius'' cited above, [[Plutarch]] recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son [[Sufax|Sophax]], who named the city Tingis after his mother. Sophax in his turn was father of Diodorus who conquered many Libyan peoples with his army of [[Olbia]]ns and [[Mycenae]]ans brought to Libya by Heracles.<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''Life of Sertorius'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Sert.+9.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0062:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Antaeus 9.4]</ref> Moreover, some related that Heracles had a son [[Palaemon (Greek mythology)|Palaemon]] by Iphinoe, the daughter of Antaeus and (presumably) Tinge.<ref name=":1">[[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 663</ref>

[[Scholia]]sts on [[Pindar|Pindar's]] [[Pindar's First Pythian Ode|Pythian Ode]] 9 also recorded a story which made Antaeus king of the city Irassa in Libya, and father of a daughter named either Alceis or Barce. Antaeus promised her hand to the winner of a race, just as [[Danaus]] had done to find husbands for [[Danaïdes|his daughters]]. [[Alexidamus]] beat all the other suitors in the race and married the daughter of Antaeus. Three versions of this story, with minor variations, were collected by the scholiasts; one of those versions made Antaeus, king of Irassa, a figure distinct from the Antaeus killed by Heracles, while another one suggested that they were one and the same.<ref>[[Scholia]] on Pindar, ''[[Pindar's First Pythian Ode|Pythian Odes]]'' 9, 185, referring to [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]], [[Pisander of Camirus]] and other unspecified writers</ref>

The ancient city of [[Barca (ancient city)|Barca]], probably located at [[Marj, Libya]], was also called Antapolis after Antaeus.<ref name="Gordon">{{cite book |page=182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnxTDwAAQBAJ&q=antaeus+ant%C3%A1bulus&pg=PA182|title=The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 1): An English Translation
|editor1=Matthew S. Gordon
|editor2= Chase F. Robinson
|editor3=Everett K. Rowson
|editor4= Michael Fishbein
|isbn= 9789004364141
|publisher=Brill
|date = 2017
}}</ref> ''Antaeopolis'' is also the Graeco-Roman name of [[Tjebu]], an Egyptian city. They identified the tutelary god of Tjebu, [[Nemty]], a fusion of [[Seth]] and [[Horus]], with Antaeus, although he may be different from the Libyan Antaeus.