Antheia (Thrace)

42°27′N 27°35′E / 42.450°N 27.583°E / 42.450; 27.583

Atia peninsula and the Medni Rid hill behind.
Map of the coast of Bulgaria near Burgas; the site of ancient Antheia is marked

Antheia (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθεια) was a town on the western coast of the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea) in ancient Thrace, a colony of the Milesians and Phocaeans.[1] It later bore the Latin name Anthium,[2] and was the precursor settlement to Apollonia Pontica (modern Sozopol).[3] It was located on the Gulf of Burgas between the modern cities of Burgas and Sozopol in Bulgaria.

  1. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  2. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.45.
  3. ^ Gustav Hirschfeld: Antheia 5.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 2362.