Editing Antheia

{{Short description|Epithet of Hera and Aphrodite}}
{{other uses}}
In [[Ancient Greek religion]], '''Antheia''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀνθεία|lit=Flowergoddess}})<ref>Willets, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b2Y1E4Qi8eoC/page/n221/mode/2up p. 209].</ref> or '''Anthea''', was an epithet of both the goddesses [[Hera]] and [[Aphrodite]]. According to the geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], there was a temple of Hera Antheia at [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]],<ref>Pirenne-Delforge, and Pironti, [https://oxfordre-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-3011 s.v Hera]; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D25%3Aentry%3Dantheia-bio-1 s.v. Antheia]; [[LSJ]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=E61EDD48E4F1A22F839AA4DC149C0955?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D174%3Aentry%3D*%29%2Fanqeia s.v. Ἄνθεια]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.22.1 2.22.1].</ref> while according to [[Hesychius of Alexandria|Hesychius]], Antheia was a name used for Aphrodite at [[Knossos]].<ref>Willets, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b2Y1E4Qi8eoC/page/n221/mode/2up p. 209]; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D25%3Aentry%3Dantheia-bio-1 s.v. Antheia]; [[LSJ]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=E61EDD48E4F1A22F839AA4DC149C0955?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D174%3Aentry%3D*%29%2Fanqeia s.v. Ἄνθεια]; [[Hesychius of Alexandria|Hesychius]], [https://archive.org/details/hesychiialexand00schmgoog/page/n89/mode/2up s.v. Ἄνθεια].</ref>

== Notes ==
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==References==
* [[Henry George Liddell|Liddell, Henry George]], [[Robert Scott (philologist)|Robert Scott]], ''[[A Greek-English Lexicon]]'', revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie, [[Clarendon Press]] Oxford, 1940. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=E61EDD48E4F1A22F839AA4DC149C0955?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0057 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Hesychius of Alexandria]], ''Hesychii Alexandrini lexicon'', Moritz Schmidt (ed.), Jenae, Sumptibus Hermanni Dufftii (Libraria Maukiana), 1867. [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R-zVabafOucC/page/n7/mode/2up Internet Archive]
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. [http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]], ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', London (1873). [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0104 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane, and Gabriella Pironti, [https://oxfordre-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-3011?rskey=LKYUo0&result=1 s.v. Hera], published online 30 July 2015, revised 26 October 2017, in the ''[http://classics.oxfordre.com/ Oxford Classical Dictionary]'', edited by [[Tim Whitmarsh]], digital ed, New York,  Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-19-938113-5}}.
* {{cite book| author=R. F. Willetts | year=1977 | title=The Civilization of Ancient Crete |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b2Y1E4Qi8eoC |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b2Y1E4Qi8eoC/page/n222 209]| publisher=University of California Press }}

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