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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 88 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ANTAEUS , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, a See also:

GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant of See also:

LIBYA

Libya, the son of See also:

POSEIDON

Poseidon and Gaea. He compelled all strangers passing through the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country to wrestle with him, and as, when thrown, he derived fresh strength from each successive contact with his See also:

MOTHER

mother See also:

earth, he proved invincible. With the skulls of those whom he had slain he built a See also:

temple to his See also:

FATHER

father. Heracles, in combat with him, discovered the source of his strength, and lifting him up from the earth crushed him to See also:

DEATH

death (See also:

APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus ii. 5; See also:

Hyginus, Fab. 31). The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favourite subject in See also:

ancient See also:

sculpture.

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