A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

ANTIMACHItS.
not for any higher or poetical reason, that Agatharchides made an abridgment of it. (Phot. Bibl.
p. 171, ed. Bekker.)
The principal work of Antimachus was his epic
poem called Thebais (~$-ats), which Cicero designates as magnum illud volumen. Porphyrius (ad
Horat. ad Pison. 146) says, that Antimachus had
spun out his poem so much, that in the 24th book
(volumen) his Seven Heroes had not yet arrived at
Thebes. Now as in the remaining part of the
work the poet had not only to describe the war of
the Seven, but also probably treated of the war of
the Epigoni (Schol. ad Aristoph. Pax. 1268), the
length of the poem must have been immense. It
was, like the elegy Lyde, full of mythological lore,
and all that had any connexion with the subject of
the poem was incorporated in it. It was, of course,
difficult to control such a mass, and hence we find
it stated by Quintilian (x. 1. ~ 53; comp. Dionys.
Hal. De verb. Comapos. 22), that Antimachus was
unsuccessful in his descriptions of passion, that his
works were not graceful, and were deficient in
arrangement. His style also had not the simple
and easy flow of the Homeric poems. He borrowed expressions and phrases from the tragic
writers, and frequently introduced Doric forms.
[Schol. ad Nicand Theriac. 3.) Antimachus was
Jbus one of the forerunners of the poets of the
Alexandrine school, who wrote more for the learned
md a select number of readers than for the public
it large. The Alexandrine grammarians assigned
o him the second place among the epic poets, and
he emperor Hadrian preferred his works even to
hose of Homer. (Dion. Cass. lxix. 4; Spartian.
radrian. 5.) There are some other works which
",re ascribed to Antimachus, such as a work enitled "ApTre.us (Steph. Byz. s. v. Kovv'aiov), a
econd called AE'ATV (Athen. vii. p. 300), a third
alled 'Iayxvt (Etymol. M. s. v. 'AGoA'Twp), and
erhaps also a Centauromachia (Natal. Coin. vii.
); but as in all these cases Antimachus is
sentioned without any descriptive epithet, it canot be ascertained whether he is the Clarian
oet, for there are two other poets of the same
ame. Suidas says that Antimachus of Claros was
Iso a grammarian, and there is a tradition that he
iade a recension of the text of the Homeric poems;
ut respecting these points see F. A. Wolf, Progsom. pp. clxxvii. and clxxxi., &c. The numerous
agments of Antimachus have been collected by. A. G. Schellenberg, Halle, 1786, 8vo. Some
Iditional fragments are contained in H. G. Stoll,
nimadv. in Antimachi Fraygm. Gitting. 1841.
hose belonging to the Thebais are collected in
lintzer's Die Fragm. der Episch. Poes. der Griech.
"s aif Alexand. p. 99, &c., comp. with Nachlrag,
38, &c. See N. Bach, PEiletae, Hermesianactis,
c. reliquiae, &c. Epimetrun de Antimnachi Lyda,
240; Blomfield in the Classical Journal, iv. p.
31; Welcker, Der Epische Cyclus, p. 102, &c.
2. Of TEOS, an epic poet. Plutarch (Romul.
2) states, that lie was said to have known someing about the eclipse which occurred on the day
the foundation of Rome. Clemens Alexandrinus;trotm. vi. p. 622, c.) quotes an hexameter verse
)inm him, which Agias is said to have imitated.
this statement is correct, Antimachus would
long to an early period of Greek literature.
3. Of HELIOPOLIS in Egypt, is said by Suidas
have written a poem called Koaaoworot, that is,
the creation of the universe, consisting of 3780

ANTINOUS. 191
hexameter verses. Tzetzes (ad Lycophr. 245)
quotes three lines from Antimachus, but whether
they belong to Antimachus of Heliopolis, or to
either of the two other poets of the same name,
cannot be ascertained. (Diintzer, Fragm. der
Episch. Poes. von Alexand., &c. p. 97.) [L. S.]
ANTI'MACHUS, a sculptor, celebrated for his
statues of ladies. (Plin. xxxiv. 19. ~ 26.) [P. S.]
ANTIME'NIDAS. [ALCAEUS.]
ANTIMOERUS ('Avri/otipos), a sophist, was
a native of Mende in Thrace, and is mentioned
with praise among the disciples of Protagoras.
(Plat. Protag. p. 315, a.; Themist. Orat. xxix.
p. 347, d.) [L. S.]
ANTI'NOE ('Avr'1vd6), a daughter of Cepheus.
At the command of an oracle she led the inhabitants of Mantineia from the spot where the old
town stood, to a place where the new town was
to be founded. She was guided on her way by a
serpent. She had a monument at Mantineia commemorating this event. (Paus. viii% 8. ~ 3, 9.
~ 2.) In the latter of these passages she is called
Antonoe. Two other mythical personages of this
name occur in Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 164;
Paus. viii. 11. ~ 2. [L. S.]
ANTPNOUS ('Av-rivovs), a son of Eupeithes of
Ithaca, and one of the suitors of Penelope, who
during the absence of Odysseus even attempted to
make himself master of the kingdom and threatened the life of Telemachus. (Hornm. Od. xxii. 48, &c.,
iv. 630, &c., xvi. 371.) When Odysseus after his
return appeared in the disguise of a beggar, Antinous insulted him and threw a foot-stool at him.
(Od. xviii. 42, &c.) On this account he was the
first of the suitors who fell by the hands of Odysseus. (xxii. 8, &c.) [L. S.]
ANTI'NOUS ('Avrivovs), a chief among the
Molossians in Epeirus, who became involved,
against his own will, in the war of Perseus, king
of Macedonia, against the Romans. His family
and that of another chief, Cephalus, were connected with the royal house of Macedonia by friendship, and although he was convinced that the war
against Rome would be ruinous to Macedonia and
therefore had no intention of joining Perseus, yet
Charops, a young Epeirot, who had been educated
at Rome and wished to insinuate himself into the
favour of the Romans, calumniated Antinous and
Cephalus as if they entertained a secret hostility
towards Rome. Antinous and his friends at first
treated the machinations of Charops with contempt,
but when they perceived that some of their friends
were arrested and conveyed to Rome, Antinous
and Cephalus were compelled, for the sake of their
own safety, openly, though unwillingly, to join the
Macedonian party, and the Molossians followed
their example. After the outbreak of the war
Antinous fell fighting, B. c. 168. Polybius does
not state clearly whether Antinous fell in battle, or
whether he put an end to his own life in despair.
(Polyb. xxvii. 13, xxx. 7.) [L. S.]
ANTI'NOUS, a youth, probably of low origin,
born at Bithynium or Claudiopolis in Bithynia.
On account of his extraordinary beauty he was
taken by the emperor Hadrian to be his page, and
soon became the object of his extravagant affection.
Hadrian took him with him on all his journeys.
It was in the course of one of these that he was
drowned in the Nile. It is uncertain whether his
death was accidental, or whether he threw himself
into the river, either from disgust at the life he led,