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JEREMY MCINERNEY

University of Pennsylvania

A village two miles west of THERMOPYLAE on the shore of the MALIAN GULF (BA 55 D3). Anthela was the ancestral seat of the Amphictyonic states, who, by the sixth century BCE, controlled DELPHI. A shrine of the local hero AMPHICTYON and a sanctuary of ARTEMIS Amphictyonis were located here (7.200.2). The road through Thermopylae was at its narrowest near Anthela, according to Herodotus (7.176.2), no wider than a cart track. Extensive silting has altered the geomorphology of the region (Kase et al. 1991). Sondages confirm that the coastline in 480 BCE was much closer to the cliffs of Thermopylae.

SEE ALSO: Amphictyones; Phocis