Antaeus
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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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,
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;