The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(in Latin Antaeus) According to Greek myth, the son of → Poseidon and the goddess of the earth → Gaia.
The Greek word antaíos means ‘he who meets’. The giant Antaíos lived in Libya; and everyone whom he met there he challenged to a wrestling match and killed. Herakles finally overcame him by picking him up from the ground, thereby severing Antaios’ dynamic contact with Mother Earth.
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