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“Invincible” victim of Hercules
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antaeus
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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 . The first number appeared in the summer of 1970, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Libyan giant slain by Herakles, from Greek Antaios , literally "opposite, opposed to, hostile," from anta "over against, face to face," related to anti "opposite, against" (see ante ).
Usage examples of antaeus.
On the one side were the green moire-touched troops that Antaeus had animated from the litter of Deep Fields.
Behind the shower of wood came Antaeus and, not so much at his heels as escorted by him, came Earthma.
The force of the cheerful, coherent sound resisted the moire that Antaeus directed toward them.
It wavered, but it did not warp, and with every futile attack Antaeus was diminished.
Lord of Entropy was not affected, nor was Earthma, but the latter was so stunned by the turn of events that she forgot her son for long enough that Antaeus was visibly diminished by its attempt to continue the assault.
I have considered the effects of our battle in Deep Fields on their plans and I believe that the loss of Antaeus will hurt them sorely.
With Antaeus in charge of Deep Fields, those troops could be ruled immune to the touch of moire.
It was the secret of the great wrestler Antaeus, the son of Terra, that he could not be thrown even by Hercules so long as his feet touched the earth.
If it had indulged freely in the abstractions of its practices, it would doubtless have suffered the fate of Antaeus, who was finally strangled in mid-air by a giant who came over the mountains.
Here was the secret of his power in the real world, the sweetly-flowering earth from which like Antaeus he periodically renewed his strength.
The human giants, if so they may be called, such as the Cyclopes, Antaeus, Orion, and others, must be supposed not to be altogether disproportioned to human beings, for they mingled in love and strife with them.
He thought more of Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he slew Roland in spite of enchantments, availing himself of the artifice of Hercules when he strangled Antaeus the son of Terra in his arms.
Burghard yelled, and Doyle found himself pushed between Longwell and Stowell as the members of the Antaeus Brotherhood shifted their positions to form a loop.
He sat up on the ice, and as alertness washed hotly through him he became aware of the dagger transfixing his foot and the litter of lumber scuttling away from him to batter a couple of motionless human forms sprawled too far out to have been reached by the Antaeus chain.