Antiphemus

Antiphemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίφημος) was a man from ancient Greece from Rhodes who was the founder of Gela, around 690 BCE. The colony was composed of Rhodians and Cretans, the latter led by Entimus the Cretan,[1][2] the former chiefly from Lindus,[3] and to this town Antiphemus himself belonged.[4]

From the Etymologicum Magnum[5] and Aristaenetus in Stephanus of Byzantium[6] it appears the tale ran that Antiphemus and his brother Lacius, the founder of Phaselis, were, when at Delphi, suddenly bid to go forth, one eastward, one westward; and from his laughing at the unexpected response, the city took its name. From Pausanias we hear of his taking the Sicanian town of Omphace as an oikistes,[7] and carrying off from it a statue made by the legendary Daedalus.[8][9][10][11][12]

The scholar Karl Otfried Müller considers Antiphemus a mythical person.[13]

Notes
  1. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.4
  2. Scholiast, On Pindar's Olympian 2.14
  3. Herodotus, Histories 7.153
  4. Philostephanus, apud Athen. vii. p. 297f.
  5. Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. Γέλα
  6. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Γέλα
  7. Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.46.2
  8. August Böckh, Comm. ad Pind. p. 115
  9. Clinton, Fasti Hellenici. B. C. 690
  10. Hermann, Pol. Antiq. § 85
  11. Göller, de Orig. Syracus. p. 265
  12. Morris, Sarah P. (1995). Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art. Princeton University Press. pp. 200–202. ISBN 9780691001609. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  13. Karl Otfried Müller, Die Dorier 1.6. §§ 5, 6

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Clough, Arthur Hugh (1870). "Antiphemus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 205.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.