Antaeus (' Av-atoq) was a son of Poseidon and Ge, a mighty giant 

 and wrestler in Libya, whose strength was invincible so long as he re- 

 mained in contact with his mother earth. The strangers who came 

 to his country were compelled to wrestle with him ; the conquered 

 were slain, and out of their skulls he built a house to Poseidon. 

 Heracles discovered the source of his strength, lifted him up from 

 the earth, and crushed him in the air. (Apollod., ii. 5, 11 ; Hygin. 

 Fab., 31 ; Diod., iv. 17; Pind., Isthm.. iv. 87, etc.; Lucan, Pharsal., 

 iv. 590, etc.; Juven., iii. 89; Ov., 76., 397.) The tomb of Antaeus, 

 (Antaei collis,) which formed a moderate hill in the shape of a man 

 stretched out at full length, was shown near the town of Tingis, in 

 Mauretania, down to a late period, (Strab., xvii. p. 829 ; P. Mela, iii. 

 10, $ 35, etc.,) and it was believed that whenever a portion of the 

 earth covering it was taken away, it rained until the hole was filled 

 up again. Sertorius is said to have opened the grave, but when he 

 found the skeleton of sixty cubits in length, he was struck with 

 horror, and had it covered again immediately. (Strab., I. c.; Plut., 

 Sertor., 9.) Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. [L. S.] 



"Man is the summit, the crown of Nature's development, and 

 must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the 

 fruit included within itself all the earlier developed parts of the 

 plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in minia- 

 ture. 



"The universal spirit is Man. In the human race the world has 

 become individual. Man is the entire image or likeness of the world. 

 His language is the spirit of the world. All the functions of animals 

 have attained unto unity, unto self-consciousness, in Man." 



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