Antaea

Antaea (Greek: Ἀνταία), or Antea, was in Greek mythology an epithet of the goddesses Demeter, Rhea, and Cybele. Its meaning is unclear but it probably signifies a goddess whom man may approach in prayers.[1][2][3] It may also have to do with Cybele's hostility to the Telchines.[4]

"Antaea" was also another name for Stheneboea, wife of Proetus.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Orph. Hymn. 40. 1
  2. ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes i. 1141
  3. ↑ Hesychius of Alexandria, Ἀνταία
  4. ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes (1822). The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius 1. Translated by Preston, William. Press of C. Whittingham. p. 230.
  5. ↑ Kirk, Geoffrey Stephen (1973). Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures. Sather classical lectures. University of California Press. p. 180. ISBN 9780520023895.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz (1870). "Antaea". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 181. 

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