Antaeus
mythological figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Isthmean
A giant of Libya who roofed Poseidon's temple with strangers' skulls until slain by Heracles.
This hero went to the house of Antaeus in grain-bearing Libya, to keep him from roofing Poseidon’s temple with the skulls of strangers,
Laws
Mythical wrestler credited with certain wrestling techniques.
As to the devices introduced by Antaeus or Cercyon in the art of wrestling for the sake of empty glory, or in boxing by Epeius or Amycus, since they are useless in the business of war, they merit no eulogy.
Theaetetus
Mythical wrestler who forced all who approached him to fight, cited by Theodorus as a parallel to Socrates' refusal to let interlocutors withdraw from argument.
For the Lacedaemonians tell people to go away or else strip, but you seem to me to play rather the role of Antaeus;
Sertorius
Giant said by the Libyans to be buried at Tingis in a tomb of enormous size, whose opening Sertorius investigated.
Now, the people of Tingis have a myth that after the death of Antaeus, his wife, Tinga, consorted with Heracles, and that Sophax was the fruit of this union, who became king of the country and named a city which he founded after his mother;
In this city the Libyans say that Antaeus is buried;
Theseus
Figure wrestled to death by Heracles, cited as a parallel to Theseus's method of punishment.
For that hero punished those who offered him violence in the manner in which they had plotted to serve him, and therefore sacrificed Busiris, wrestled Antaeus to death, slew Cycnus in single combat, and killed Termerus by dashing in his skull.