Antiphemus

{{Infobox person | name = Antiphemus | native_name = Αντίϕημος | image = Antifemo di Rodi.png | caption = Illustration from ''Delle memorie istoriche dell'antica città di Gela nella Sicilia'', 1753 | birth_date = {{circa}} 7th century BCE | birth_place = Rhodes | burial_place = Gela | occupation = Oikistes of Gela | father = Craton | relatives = {{?}} Lacius (brother) }}

'''Antiphemus''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀντίφημος}}) was a man from ancient Greece from Rhodes who was the founder of Gela, around 690 BCE. The colony was composed of Rhodians and Cretans, the latter led by Entimus the Cretan,<ref>Thucydides, ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' 6.4</ref><ref>Scholiast, ''On Pindar's Olympian'' 2.14</ref> the former chiefly from Lindus,<ref>Herodotus, ''Histories'' 7.153</ref> and to this town Antiphemus himself belonged.<ref>Philostephanus, ''apud Athen.'' vii. p. 297f.</ref>

From the ''Etymologicum Magnum''<ref>''Etymologicum Magnum'', s.v. Γέλα</ref> and Aristaenetus in Stephanus of Byzantium<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Γέλα</ref> it appears the tale ran that Antiphemus and his brother Lacius, the founder of Phaselis, were, when at Delphi, suddenly bid to go forth, one eastward, one westward; and from his laughing at the unexpected response, the city took its name. From Pausanias we hear of his taking the Sicanian town of Omphace as an oikistes,<ref>Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' 8.46.2</ref> and carrying off from it a statue made by the legendary Daedalus.<ref>August Böckh, ''Comm. ad Pind.'' p. 115</ref><ref>Clinton, Fasti Hellenici. B. C. 690</ref><ref>Hermann, ''Pol. Antiq.'' § 85</ref><ref>Göller, ''de Orig. Syracus.'' p. 265</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Morris | first =Sarah P. | authorlink =Sarah P. Morris | title =Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art | publisher =Princeton University Press | date =1995 | pages =200–202 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=Zqtx2tpGAk4C | isbn = 9780691001609 | accessdate=2016-01-30}}</ref>

The 19th century scholar Karl Otfried Müller considered Antiphemus a mythical person.<ref>Karl Otfried Müller, ''Die Dorier'' 1.6. §§ 5, 6</ref>

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Category:Ancient Rhodians Category:7th-century BC Greek people Category:City founders Category:People from Gela