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Antaeus in Greek
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 and Berber mythology
Berber mythology

Berber people beliefs or Amazigh beliefs are the beliefs of the indigenous Berber people of North Africa . These beliefs were influenced primarily by the beliefs of the Berbers' Egyptian neighbors, as well as by other people who lived in the area, such as Phoenicians, Jews, Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans....
 was a giant of Libya
Ancient Libya

Ancient Libya was the region west of the Nile Valley. It corresponds to what is now generally called Northwest Africa. Its people were the ancestors of the modern Berber people....
, the son of Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 and Gaia
Gaia (mythology)

Gaia Gaia is a Greek primordial gods and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek Pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess....
, whose wife was Tinjis
Tinjis

Tinjis was in Berber Mythology and Greek Mythology the wife of Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia .The historian and archaeologist Mustapha Ouachi noticed that the city Tangier is geographically related to its myth....
. 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
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
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Antaeus in Greek
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 and Berber mythology
Berber mythology

Berber people beliefs or Amazigh beliefs are the beliefs of the indigenous Berber people of North Africa . These beliefs were influenced primarily by the beliefs of the Berbers' Egyptian neighbors, as well as by other people who lived in the area, such as Phoenicians, Jews, Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans....
 was a giant of Libya
Ancient Libya

Ancient Libya was the region west of the Nile Valley. It corresponds to what is now generally called Northwest Africa. Its people were the ancestors of the modern Berber people....
, the son of Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 and Gaia
Gaia (mythology)

Gaia Gaia is a Greek primordial gods and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek Pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess....
, whose wife was Tinjis
Tinjis

Tinjis was in Berber Mythology and Greek Mythology the wife of Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia .The historian and archaeologist Mustapha Ouachi noticed that the city Tangier is geographically related to its myth....
. 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
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
. Heracles
Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
, 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 story of Antaeus has been used as a symbol of the spiritual strength which accures 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.

In Dante
DANTE

DANTE is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various National Research and Education Networks in Europe and surrounding regions....
's The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy , written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature....
, Antaeus is a giant who guards the ninth circle of Hell, and lowers Dante and Virgil down to the iced-over Cocytus
Cocytus

Cocytus or Kokytos, meaning "the river of wailing" , is a river in Hades in Greek mythology. Cocytus flowed into the river Acheron, across which dwelled the underworld, the mythological abode of the dead....
.

One of the stories of the Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales

Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of some of the most famous of the ancient Greek myths in a volume for children....
 features Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: "The Pygmies").

Other

  • Antaeus was mentioned in the film The Great Debaters
    The Great Debaters

    The Great Debaters is a 2007 film directed by and starring two-time Academy Awards winner Denzel Washington and produced by Oprah Winfrey and her production company, Harpo Productions....
     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
    Egyptian mythology

    Ancient Egyptian religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Egypt over at least 3,000 years, from the Predynastic Egypt until the adoption of Coptic Christianity in the early centuries Common Era....
    , Anti
    Anti (mythology)

    In Egyptian mythology, Anti was a god whose worship centred at Antaeopolis, in the northern part of Upper Egypt.His worship is quite ancient, dating from at least the Second Dynasty of Egypt, at which point he already had priests dedicated to his cult....
    , was transliterated
    Transliteration

    Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice....
     as "Antaeus" by the Greeks.


  • ????? (Antaeus in Russian
    Russian language

    Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
    ) is the original name of both the Oscar-II class submarine
    Oscar class submarine

    The Project 949 and Project 949A Soviet Navy/Russian Navy cruise missile submarines are known in the West by their NATO reporting names, the Oscar-I and Oscar-II classes, respectively....
     and the Antonov An-22
    Antonov An-22

    Antonov An-22 ????? was the world's largest aircraft, until the advent of American C-5 Galaxy and later the Soviet An-124. Powered by 4 contra-rotating propellers turboprops, the design remains the world's largest turboprop-powered aircraft....
     transport aircraft.


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

    Antaeus was a literary quarterly founded by Daniel Halpern and Paul Bowles and edited by Daniel Halpern. It was originally published in Tangier, Morocco, but operations were later shifted to New York City....
    .


  • Antaeus
    Antaeus (short story)

    Antaeus is a short story by Borden Deal. It is named after the mythological figure Antaeus, a giant who was unconquerable as long as he touched the ground....
     is the title of a short story
    Short story

    The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
     by the American novelist Borden Deal
    Borden Deal

    Borden Deal , was an United States novelist and short story writer.Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Mississippi, Deal attended Macedonia Consolidated High School, after which he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and fought forest fires in the Pacific Northwest....
    .


  • Rick Riordan (Author of the Percy Jackson books) uses Antaeus in Percy Jackson and the battle of the labyrinth, he describes him as fully red with wave patterns etched into his skin and teeth.


  • The Irish poet Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
     wrote two poems about Antaeus in his book 'North'


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

    Antaeus is the name of two fictional characters from DC Comics.Antaeus This Antaeus was seen as a member of Maxie Zeus's New Olympians....


  • Antaeus is the name of the battlecruiser
    Battlecruiser

    Battlecruisers were large warships in the first half of the 20th century that were first introduced by the Royal Navy. The battlecruiser was developed as the successor to the armoured cruisers, but their evolution was more closely linked to that of the dreadnought battleships....
     in the PC game Hostile Waters (game)
    Hostile Waters (game)

    Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising is a hybrid vehicle and strategy game released on the PC in 2001 by the United Kingdom company Rage Games Limited....


  • Antaeus is the name of a men's Eau de Toilette by Chanel
    Chanel

    Chanel S.A. ), is a Parisian fashion house created by Coco Chanel. Specializing in luxury goods , the Chanel label has become one of the most recognized names in luxury and haute couture fashion ....
     launched in 1981
  • The Antaeus myth features heavily in the Pat Barker
    Pat Barker

    Pat Barker is an England writer and historian. She published her first novel, Union Street , in 1982 and has since won critical acclaim for her World War I series, the Regeneration trilogy, a fictionalised account of the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatry W....
     novel Regeneration
    Regeneration (novel)

    For the 1997 film adaptation of the novel see Regeneration .Regeneration is a prize-winning novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991....
     as a metaphor for men psychologically disturbed in World War One


  • 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.


  • There is a new paraglider
    Paragliding

    Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport. A paraglider is a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing, whose shape is formed by its suspension lines and the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing....
     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


  • In chapter 57 of the Margaret Mitchell
    Margaret Mitchell

    Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh , popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an United States of America author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind....
     novel Gone With the Wind
    Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind is a romantic drama and the only novel by Margaret Mitchell. The story follows Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a plantation owner in Georgia during and after the Civil War....
    , Rhett says of Scarlett's relationship to Tara plantation (where she has gone to recover from a serious injury), "Sometimes I think she's like the giant Antaeus who became stronger each time he touched Mother Earth. It doesn't do for Scarlett to stay away too long from the patch of red mud she loves."


  • Antaeus was used by ADM Hyman G. Rickover
    Hyman G. Rickover

    Hyman George Rickover , was a four-star Admiral in the United States Navy. Rickover was known as the "Father of the List of United States Naval reactors", which as of July 2007 had produced 200 nuclear-powered Submarines in the United States Navy, and 23 nuclear-powered List of aircraft carrier classes of the United States Navy and List of c...
     as a metaphor for engineers who sometimes become isolated from the world around them. "... the Devil is in the details, but so is salvation."


  • The battle between Hercules and Antaeus was referenced in the book Fahrenheit 451
    Fahrenheit 451

    Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian speculative fiction novel authored by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1953.The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are Hedonism, and critical thought through reading is outlawed....


  • A French Black metal
    Black metal

    Black metal is an extreme metal subgenre of Heavy metal music. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....
     band is named after Antaeus.


  • Antaeus is mentioned in Neal Stephenson's 1999 novel Cryptonomicon
    Cryptonomicon

    Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by Neal Stephenson. It concurrently follows the exploits of World War II-era cryptographers affiliated with Bletchley Park in their attempts to crack Axis Powers codes and fight the Nazi submarine fleet, alongside the story of their descendants, who are attempting to use modern cryptography to build a data ha...
    .


Antaeus is an important Romantic figure in Roy Campbell's poem "Tristan De Cunha."

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