ANACHARSIS CLOOTZ.  See CLOOTZ.

ANACON`DA, a gigantic serpent of tropical America.

ANAC`REON, a celebrated Greek lyric poet, a native of Teos, in Asia Minor; lived chiefly at Samos and Athens; his songs are in praise of love and wine, not many fragments of them are preserved (560-418 B.C.).

ANACREON OF PAINTERS, Francesco Albani; A. OF PERSIA, Haefiz;
A. OF THE GUILLOTINE, Barere.

ANADYOM`ENE, Aphrodite, a name meaning “emerging,” given to her in allusion to her arising out of the sea; the name of a famous painting of Apelles so representing her.

ANADYR, a river in Siberia, which flows into Behring Sea.

ANAG`NI, a small town 40 m.  SE. of Rome, the birthplace of several
Popes.

ANAHUAC`, a plateau in Central Mexico, 7580 ft. of mean elevation; one of the names of Mexico prior to the conquest of it by the Spaniards.

AN`AKIM, a race of giants that lived in the S. of Palestine, called also sons of Anak.

ANAM`ALAH MOUNTAINS, a range of the W. Ghats in Travancore.

ANAMU`DI, the highest point in the Anamalah Mts., 7000 ft.

ANARCHISM, a projected social revolution, the professed aim of which is that of the emancipation of the individual from the present system of government which makes him the slave of others, and of the training of the individual so as to become a law to himself, and in possession, therefore, of the right to the control of all his vital interests, the project definable as an insane attempt to realise a social system on the basis of absolute individual freedom.

ANASTA`SIUS, the name of four popes:  A. I., the most eminent, pope from 398 to 401; A. II., pope from 496 to 498; A. III., pope from 911 to 913; A. IV., pope from 1153 to 1154.

ANASTASIUS, ST., a martyr under Nero; festival, April 15.

ANASTASIUS I., emperor of the East, excommunicated for his severities to the Christians, and the first sovereign to be so treated by the Pope (430-515).

ANATO`LIA, the Greek name for Asia Minor.

ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, a “mosaic” work by Burton, described by Professor Saintsbury as “a wandering of the soul from Dan to Beersheba, through all employments, desires, pleasures, and finding them barren except for study, of which in turn the taedium is not obscurely hinted.”

ANAXAG`ORAS, a Greek philosopher of Clazomenae, in Ionia, removed to Athens and took philosophy along with him, i. e. transplanted it there, but being banished thence for impiety to the gods, settled in Lampsacus, was the first to assign to the nous, conceived of “as a purely immaterial principle, a formative power in the origin and organisation of things”; d. 425 B.C.

ANAXAR`CHUS, a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus and friend of Alexander the Great.

ANAXIMANDER, a Greek philosopher of Miletus, derived the universe from a material basis, indeterminate and eternal (611-547 B.C.).