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Template:Short description Template:Other uses In Ancient Greek religion, Antheia (Template:Langx)<ref>Willets, p. 209.</ref> or Anthea, was an epithet of both the goddesses Hera and Aphrodite. According to the geographer Pausanias, there was a temple of Hera Antheia at Argos,<ref>Pirenne-Delforge, and Pironti, s.v Hera; Smith, s.v. Antheia; LSJ, s.v. Ἄνθεια; Pausanias, 2.22.1.</ref> while according to Hesychius, Antheia was a name used for Aphrodite at Knossos.<ref>Willets, p. 209; Smith, s.v. Antheia; LSJ, s.v. Ἄνθεια; Hesychius, s.v. Ἄνθεια.</ref>

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