Antheia
(Ἄνθεια), the blooming, or the friend of flowers, a surname of Hera, under which she had a temple at Argos. Before this temple was the mound under which the women were buried who had come with Dionysus from the Aegean islands, and had fallen in a contest with the Argives and Perseus. (Paus. 2.22.1.) Antheia was used at Gnossus as a surname of Aphrodite. (Hesych. s. v.) [L.S]
ANTHEIA (Ἄνθεια: Eth. Ἀνθεύς).
1.A town in Messenia, mentioned by Homer (Hom. Il. 9.151), who gives it the epithet Βαθυλείμων, supposed by later writers to be the same as Thuria, though some identified it with Asine. (Strab. 8. p. 360; Paus. 4.31.1; Leake, Morea, vol. 1. p. 453.)
2.A town in Troezene, founded by Anthes. (Paus. 2.30.8; Steph. B. s. v.)
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4.A town on the Hellespont, founded by the Milesians and Phocaeans. (Steph. B. s. v.; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 743, 22.)