Geography/Culture: Cretan.
Linguistic Note: Greek alpha-nu-theta-eta-iota-alpha (antheia) from alpha-nu-theta-eta-omikron-nu, (antheon), a flower, blossom. Related English word: anther (that part of the stamen containing the pollen or fertilising dust).
Description: Goddess of spring vegetation, lowlands, marshlands, gardens, the budding earth, fruit-blossom, flowers and the flower of human youth, love and marriage.
Girls served in the temple of Hera-Antheia under the name of Flower-Bearers.
To Whom Sacred: flowers (especially flowers sent to weddings); {anthers; pollen; the colour yellow}; cuckoo (symbol of spring).
Festival: no exact date as yet -- Erosanthia, a flower-festival celebrated by Peloponnesian women in Spring. Perhaps related to the Anthesteria, an Athenian festival of blossoming flowers and the revocation of souls held from the 11th to the 13th of the month Anthesterion, around the end of February when the Greek spring was well begun.
Male Associate: consort, perhaps Anthedon, Rejoicing-in-Flowers, title of the Cretan spring-flower hero incarnate in every Late Minoan King.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Her name may be etymologically related to the name of Anteia, {Flowering}, Who is linked with Io, Exalter-Moon
• Variant Anthea, Flowery, first person of the Triple Themides, Steadfast-Ones, below.
• A title of Aphrodite, {Froth-of-Replication}, in Crete.
• She is also called Hebe, Downy-One, Who is linked with Roman Juventas, Youthfulness.
• Maiden aspect of Hera, Our-Lady, Who is sometimes sur-titled Antheia (Hera-Antheia).
• The island home of the Seirenes, Entanglers, was called Anthemoessa, Rich-in-Flowers, showing They served not only death but also love.
• First person of the triple Themides, Steadfast-One, below.

Geography/Culture: Troezen, formed by Pittheus who united the towns of Anthaea and Hyperea into one city. (According to Graves the name Troezen may be a worn down form of trion hezomenon, [the city] of the three sitters.
Description: Matriachal Triple Goddess of the calendar cycle and justice; the Three Sitters.
To Whom Sacred: three white marble thrones (the seats of justice).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A triple form of Themis, Steadfast-One.