ANTAL`CIDAS, a Spartan general, celebrated for a treaty which he concluded with Persia whereby the majority of the cities of Asia Minor passed under the sway of the Persians, to the loss of the fruit of all the victories gained over them by Athens (387 B.C.).

ANTANANARI`VO (100), the capital of Madagascar, in the centre of the island, on a well-nigh inaccessible rocky height 5000 ft. above the sea-level.

ANTAR, an Arab chief of the 6th century, a subject of romance, and distinguished as a poet.

ANT-EATERS, a family of edentate mammals, have a tubular mouth with a small aperture, and a long tongue covered with a viscid secretion, which they thrust into the ant-hills and then withdraw covered with ants.

ANTELOPE, an animal closely allied to the sheep and the goat, very like the latter in appearance, with a light and elegant figure, slender, graceful limbs, small cloven hoofs, and generally a very short tail.

ANTEQUE`RA (27), a town in Andalusia, 22 m.  N. of Malaga, a stronghold of the Moors from 712 to 1410.

ANTHE`LIA, luminous rings witnessed in Alpine and Polar regions, seen round the shadow of one’s head in a fog or cloud opposite the sun.

ANTHE`MIUS, the architect of the church of St. Sophia in
Constantinople; d. 534.

ANTHON, CHARLES, a well-known American classical scholar and editor of the Classics (1797-1867).

ANTHRAX, a disease, especially in cattle, due to the invasion of a living organism which, under certain conditions, breeds rapidly; called also splenic fever.

ANTHROPOID APES, a class of apes, including the gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, and gibbon, without tails, with semi-erect figures and long arms.

ANTHROPOLOGY, the science of man as he exists or has existed under different physical and social conditions.

ANTHROPOMORPHISM, the ascription of human attributes to the unseen author of things.

ANTI`BES (5) a seaport and place of ancient date on a peninsula in the S. of France, near Cannes and opposite Nice.

ANTICHRIST, a name given in the New Testament to various incarnations of opposition to Christ in usurpation of His authority, but is by St. John defined to involve that form of opposition which denies the doctrine of the Incarnation, or that Christ has come in the flesh.

ANTICOSTI, a barren rocky island in the estuary of St Lawrence, frequented by fishermen, and with hardly a permanent inhabitant.

ANTIG`ONE`, the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes, led about her father when he was blind and in exile, returned to Thebes on his death; was condemned to be buried alive for covering her brother’s exposed body with earth in defiance of the prohibition of Creon, who had usurped the throne; Creon’s son, out of love for her, killed himself on the spot where she was buried.  She has been immortalised in one of the grandest tragedies of Sophocles.