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Antinoe
In Greek mythology, the name Antinoe may refer to:
  • Antinoe, daughter of Cepheus. Instructed by an oracle, she removed the inhabitants of Mantinea from the old settlement founded by Mantineus, son of Lycaon, to a new one. She was guided to the new site by a snake, and from that circumstance the river on the banks of which the new city was founded received the name Ophis (Greek for "snake"). The tomb of Antinoe, known as "The Common Hearth", was shown in Mantinea.
  • Antinoe, a daughter of Pelias and sister of Asteropeia. After the sisters had been tricked by Medea into killing their own father, they had to flee from Iolcus to Arcadia, where they ended their days and were buried.
  • Antinoe, mother of Ancaeus and Epochus by Lycurgus of Arcadia.

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Antinopolis
Antinopolis (Antinoöpolis, Antinoopolis, Antinoë) (Greek: , Coptic ⲁⲛⲧⲓⲛⲱⲟⲩ Antinow) modern Sheikh 'Ibada) was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young belovedAntinous, on the east bank of the Nile, not far from the site in Upper Egypt where Antinous drowned in 130 AD. Antinopolis was a little to the south of the Egyptian village of Besa , named after the goddess and oracle of Besa, which was consulted occasionally even as late as the age of Constantine I. Antinopolis was built at the foot of the hill upon which Besa was seated. The city is located nearly opposite of Hermopolis Magna.

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