Antaeus () or Anthaeus (Ἀνθαῖος) was a physician of ancient Greece, whose outlandish remedy for rabies is mentioned by Pliny the Elder,Pliny the Elder, Natural History xxviii. 2 and consisted of deriving a potion from the skull of a hanged man. One of his prescriptions is preserved by Galen.Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus iv. 8. vol. xii. p. 764 Nothing is known of the events of his life, but since Pliny mentions him, he must have lived some time in or before the first century CE.
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