Anticlea (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Anticlea, Anticlia or Anticleia (/ˌæntɪˈkliːə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀντίκλεια, literally "without fame") may refer to the following women:

• Anticlea, another name for Philonoe,[1] the Lycian bride of Bellerophon and mother of his children.[2] In other accounts, she was called Alkimedousa or Cassandra[3] or Pasandra.[4]
• Anticlia, mother by Hephaestus of Periphetes, the lame malefactor of Epidaurus who was killed by the hero Theseus in one of his exploits.[5]
• Anticlea, daughter of Autolycus and mother of Odysseus by Läertes.[6]
• Anticlia, daughter of Diocles, king of Pherae, according to Pausanias. She married Asclepius' son Machaon and had by him two sons, Nicomachus and Gorgasus.[7]

Notes

1. Apollodorus, 2.3.2; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 17
2. Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.82b
3. Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 6.192
4. ?Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 6.155
5. RE, s.v. Antikleia (2); Apollodorus, 3.16.1.
6. Smith, s.v. Anticleia.
7. RE, Antikleia (3); Pausanias, 4.30.3.

References

• Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.