Antaea

In Greek mythology, Antaea (Ancient Greek: Ἀνταία), Antaia, or Antea, was 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, this name looks like "ain tinea" the berbere queen of Algerian desert (Tin Hinan). It may also have to do with Cybele's hostility to the Telchines.

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

Notes

  1. ↑ Orphic Hymn to Mother Antaia (40), 1; Apollonius of Rhodes 1.1141; Hesychius of Alexandria, Ἀνταία.
  2. ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes (1822). The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius. Vol. 1. Translated by Preston, William. Press of C. Whittingham. p. 230.
  3. ↑ 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: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Antaea". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 181.