=Anticy̆ra=, two towns of Greece, the one in Phocis and the other near mount Oeta, both famous for the hellebore which they produced. This plant was of infinite service to cure diseases, and particularly insanity; hence the proverb _Naviget Anticyram_. The Anticyra of Phocis was anciently called Cyparissa. It had a temple of Neptune, who was represented holding a trident in one hand and resting the other on his side, with one of his feet on a dolphin. Some writers, especially Horace (_Art of Poetry_, li. 300), speak of three islands of this name, but this seems to be a mistake. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 36.――_Horace_, bk. 2, satire 3, li. 166; _Art of Poetry_, li. 300.――_Persius_, bk. 4, li. 16.――_Strabo_, bk. 9.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 4, poem 3, li. 53.――――A mistress of Demetrius. _Plutarch_, _Demetrius_. =Antidŏmus=, a warlike soldier of king Philip at the siege of Perinthus. =Antidŏtus=, an excellent painter, pupil of Euphranor. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 11. =Antigĕnes=, one of Alexander’s generals, publicly rewarded for his valour. _Curtius_, bk. 5, ch. 14. =Antigenĭdas=, a famous musician of Thebes, disciple to Philoxenus. He taught his pupil Ismenias to despise the judgment of the populace. _Cicero_, _Brutus_, ch. 97. =Antigŏna=, daughter of Berenice, was wife to king Pyrrhus. _Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_. =Antigŏne=, a daughter of Œdipus king of Thebes by his mother Jocasta. She buried by night her brother Polynices, against the positive orders of Creon, who, when he heard of it, ordered her to be buried alive. She, however, killed herself before the sentence was executed; and Hæmon the king’s son, who was passionately fond of her, and had not been able to obtain her pardon, killed himself on her grave. The death of Antigone is the subject of one of the tragedies of Sophocles. The Athenians were so pleased with it at the first representation, that they presented the author with the government of Samos. This tragedy was represented 32 times at Athens without interruption. _Sophocles_, _Antigone_.――_Hyginus_, fables 67, 72, 243, 254.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 3.――_Philostratus_, bk. 2, ch. 29.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 12, li. 350.――――A daughter of Eurytion king of Phthia in Thessaly. _Apollodorus._――――A daughter of Laomedon. She was the sister of Priam, and was changed into a stork for comparing herself to Juno. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 6, li. 93. =Antigŏnia=, an inland town of Epirus. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――――One of Macedonia, founded by Antigonus son of Gonatas. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 10.――――One in Syria, on the borders of the Orontes. _Strabo_, bk. 16.――――Another in Bithynia, called also Nicæa. _Strabo_, bk. 12. ――――Another in Arcadia, anciently called Mantinea. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 8.――――One of Troas in Asia Minor. _Strabo_, bk. 13.