Antiphemus () was a man from ancient Greece from Rhodes who was the founder of Gela, around 690 BCE. The colony was composed of Rhodians and Cretans, the latter led by Entimus the Cretan,Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.4Scholiast, On Pindar's Olympian 2.14 the former chiefly from Lindus,Herodotus, Histories 7.153 and to this town Antiphemus himself belonged.Philostephanus, apud Athen. vii. p. 297f.
From the Etymologicum MagnumEtymologicum Magnum, s.v. Γέλα and Aristaenetus in Stephanus of ByzantiumStephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Γέλα it appears the tale ran that Antiphemus and his brother Lacius, the founder of Phaselis, were, when at Delphi, suddenly bid to go forth, one eastward, one westward; and from his laughing at the unexpected response, the city took its name. From Pausanias we hear of his taking the Sicanian town of Omphace as an oikistes,Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.46.2 and carrying off from it a statue made by the legendary Daedalus.August Böckh, Comm. ad Pind. p. 115Clinton, Fasti Hellenici. B. C. 690Hermann, Pol. Antiq. § 85Göller, de Orig. Syracus. p. 265
The 19th century scholar Karl Otfried Müller considered Antiphemus a mythical person.Karl Otfried Müller, Die Dorier 1.6. §§ 5, 6
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