Anthus (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, the name Anuothus (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθος, Anthos means 'flower, bloom or blossom') may refer to:

  • Anthus, a son of
    Anthus
    is thus named after him.
  • Anthus of
    Calauria (previously known as Eirene, after Eirene) and to have called it Anthedonia and Hypereia.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 7 as cited in Boeus' Ornithogonia; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.57
  2. ^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 19 referring to Aristotle and Mnasigeiton

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Anthus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.