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Can someone with more still than I please fix the picture reference in the first line? 65.96.104.82 (talk) 19:40, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The recently created page Antaios should either be merged here or simply turned into a redirect here. - Mustafaa 04:34, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

i think that it will be redrict to antaios . because he is the same : anti /anataios /antee /antaeus ...Aziri 14:03, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I can't tell what the connection between the Greek legend and this Berber stuff is. And either way it doesn't belong at the beginning, it makes things very confusing. Also I couldn't make out how the following text related to the myth:

Pliny, quoting Euanthes, says (Hist. Nat. viii. 22) that a man of the Antaeus family was selected by lot and brought to a lake in Arcadia, where he hung his clothing on an ash tree and swam across. This resulted in his being transformed into a wolf, and he wandered in this shape nine years. Then, if he had attacked no human being, he was at liberty to swim back and resume his former shape.

Ovid IX, 184. - Mcasey666 15:39, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll tell you: Antaios is not Greek at all. The Greeks never claimed he was Greek. with othter words he was just a Berber/Libyan giant who has been described in the Greek mythology. Read3r 12:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lucan

Reference should be made to Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.589-655, the most famous treatment of the myth in Latin literature. This passage is also likely to have been Dante's source.