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.)