Heracles and Antaeus, red-figured krater by Euphronios, 515–510 BC, Louvre (G 103)

Heracles and Antaeus. Drawing from Nordisk familjebok.

Antaeus in Greek and Berber mythology was a giant of Libya, the son of Poseidon and Gaia, and his wife was Tinjis. He was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground (his mother earth), but once lifted into the air he became as weak as water. He would challenge all passers-by to wrestling matches, kill them, and collect their skulls, so that he might one day build out of them a temple to his father Poseidon. Heracles, finding that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing him to the ground, as he would regain his strength and be fortified, discovered the secret of his power (touching the ground) and held Antaeus aloft and crushed him in a bearhug (Apollodorus ii. 5; Hyginus, Fab. 31). The myth of Antaeus has been used as a symbol of the spiritual strength which accrues when one rests one's faith on the immediate fact of things. The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favorite subject in ancient sculpture. Alcides redirects here. ... A krater (Greek κρατηρ, from the Greek verb κεραννυμι, to mix. ... Death of Sarpedon, painted by Euphronios Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. ... This article is about the museum. ... The Owl Edition Nordisk familjebok (en. ... The traditional Berber pantheon contains a variety of gods. ... Neptune reigns in the city of Bristol. ... For other uses, see Gaia. ... Tinjis (also called Tinga, and also spelled as Tingis) was in Berber Mythology and Greek Mythology the wife of Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia. ... Neptune reigns in the city of Bristol. ... Alcides redirects here. ... One wrestler has a bear hug on the other, and uses it for a takedown attempt, if the person being hugged is taken down from behind in an attempt to escape from the referee position, the move is known as a mat return. In wrestling, the bear hug (also known...

In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Antaeus is a giant who guards the ninth circle of Hell, and lowers Dante and Virgil down to the iced-over Cocytus. DANTE is also a digital audio network. ... For other uses see The Divine Comedy (disambiguation), Dantes Inferno (disambiguation), and The Inferno (disambiguation) Dante shown holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelino... Cocytus, meaning the river of wailing (from the Greek κωκυτός, lamentation), is a river in the underworld in Greek mythology. ...

One of the stories of the Tanglewood Tales features Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: "The Pygmies"). Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. ...

Other

• Antaeus was Beckatha's best friend Beckatha's parents were Hercules and Aphrodite!

• Antaeus was mentioned in the film The Great Debaters as a metaphor for growing stronger when one loses.

• In the Berber language Antaeus is supposedly known as Änti. A different figure from Egyptian mythology, Anti, was transliterated as "Antaeus" by the Greeks.

• Антей (Antaeus in Russian) is the original name of both the Oscar-II class submarine and the Antonov An-22 transport aircraft.

• There was a literary magazine, edited by Daniel Halpern, named Antaeus.

• "Antaeus" is the title of a short story by American novelist Borden Deal.

• There are two poems by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney about this myth in his collection North:

... He may well throw me and renew my birth
But let him not plan, lifting me off the earth,
My elevation, my fall.^[1] The Great Debaters (2007) is an upcoming film produced by Oprah Winfreys Harpo Productions. ... Afro-Asiatic - Berber The Berber languages (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria. ... Egyptian mythology or Egyptian religion is the succession of tentative beliefs held by the people of Egypt for over three thousand years, prior to major exposure to Christianity and Islam. ... In Egyptian mythology, Anti (Antaeus in Greek, but probably not connected to the Antaeus in Greek mythology) was a god whose worship centred at Antaeopolis, in the northern part of Upper Egypt. ... Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. ... Oscar class submarine The Soviet Union’s Project 949 (Granit) and Project 949A (Antey) submarines are known in the West by their NATO reporting names: the Oscar-I and Oscar-II classes respectively. ... Antonov An-22 Антей (Russian Antaeus) (NATO reporting name Cock), was the worlds largest aircraft, until the advent of the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy. ... Antaeus was a literary quarterly founded by Daniel Halpern and Paul Bowles and edited by Daniel Halpern. ... This article is in need of attention. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Borden Deal (October 12, 1922 - January 22, 1985) was an American novelist and short story writer. ... Seamus Justin Heaney (IPA: ) (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. ... North (1975) is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. ...

• There are two comic book characters named after this myth, see Antaeus (comics)

• Antaeus is the name of the battlecruiser in the PC game Hostile Waters (game)

• Antaeus is the name of a men's cologne by Chanel

• The Antaeus myth features heavily in the Pat Barker novel Regeneration as a metaphor for men psychologically disturbed in World War One

• Elsewhere in popular culture, the British prog-rock band Pure Reason Revolution have referenced Antaeus in the lyrics for their song 'Trembling Willows': "Songs of love & inflamed lips peristyle/Sold Antaeus darts!"

• The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles is a professional classical theater ensemble founded in 1991. www.antaeus.org.

• There is a new paraglider model, an high-end intermediate/performance glider name Antea by the Czech paragliding brand SKY. They tend to name gliders after characters of Greek mythology, like Brontes, one of the cyclopses

• Antaeus was used by ADM Hyman G. Rickover as a metaphor for engineers who sometimes become isolated from the world around them. "... the Devil is in the details, but so is salvation."

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References

1. ^ Seamus Heaney (1998), Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, London: Faber and Faber, p. 16.

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