=Antĕros= (ἀντι ἐρως, _against love_), a son of Mars and Venus. He was not, as the derivation of his name implies, a deity that presided over an opposition to love, but he was the god of mutual love and of mutual tenderness. Venus had complained to Themis that her son Cupid always continued a child, and was told that, if he had another brother, he would grow up in a short space of time. As soon as Anteros was born, Cupid felt his strength increase and his wings enlarge; but if ever his brother was at a distance from him, he found himself reduced to his ancient shape. From this circumstance it is seen, that return of passion gives vigour to love. Anteros had a temple at Athens raised to his honour, when Meles had experienced the coldness and disdain of Timagoras, whom he passionately esteemed, and for whom he had killed himself. _See:_ Meles. Cupid and Anteros are often represented striving to seize a palm tree from one another, to teach us that true love always endeavours to overcome by kindness and gratitude. They were always painted in the Greek academies, to inform the scholars that it is their immediate duty to be grateful to their teachers, and to reward their trouble with love and reverence. _Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 23.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 30; bk. 6, ch. 23.――――A grammarian of Alexandria, in the age of the emperor Claudius.――――A freedman of Atticus. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 9, ltr. 14. =Anthēa=, a town of Achaia. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 18.――――Of Messenia. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 31.――――Of Trœzene. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 30. =Antheas=, a son of Eumelus, killed in attempting to sow corn from the chariot of Triptolemus drawn by dragons. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 18. =Anthēdon=, a city of Bœotia, which received its name from the flowery plains that surround it, or from Anthedon, a certain nymph. Bacchus and Ceres had there temples. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 10; bk. 9, ch. 22. It was formerly inhabited by Thracians. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2. ――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 905.――――A port of Peloponnesus. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 5.――_Statius_, bk. 9, li. 291. =Anthēla=, a town near the Asopus, near which Ceres and Amphictyon had a temple. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 176. =Anthĕmis=, an island in the Mediterranean, the same as the Ionian Samos. _Strabo_, bk. 10. =Anthemon=, a Trojan. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 4. =Anthĕmus=, a city of Macedonia at Thermæ.――――A city of Syria. _Strabo._ =Anthemusia=, the same as Samos.――――A city of Mesopotamia. _Strabo._ =Anthēne=, a town of Peloponnesus. _Thucydides_, bk. 5, ch. 41.