Anthea Explained

Anthea (grc|Ἄνθεια), "blossom" in Greek, was an epithet of the Classical Greek goddess Hera, the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth. Anthea is used as a female given name in English.

Mythology

• Anthea, a queen of Argolid, also named Stheneboea.

People

• Anthea Askey (1933–1999), British actress
• Anthea Bell (1936–2018), British translator of literary works
• Anthea Benton, British television commercial and music video director
• Anthea Butler (born 1960), American professor
• Anthea Fraser (born 1930), novelist
• Anthea Joseph (1924–1981), British publisher
• Anthea Larken (born 1938), British director of the Women's Royal Naval Service
• Anthea Millett (1941–2022), British health administrator
• Anthea Phillipps (born 1956), British botanist
• Anthea Redfern (born 1948), British television host
• Anthea Stewart (born 1944), Zimbabwean field hockey player
• Anthea Sylbert (born 1937), American costume designer
• Anthea Turner (born 1960), British television presenter and media personality

Fictional characters

• Anthea, home world (which is dying due lack of water) of the fictitious alien Thomas Jerome Newton, the protagonist of Walter Tevis' sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Anthea Hopper, a minor supporting character in the French animated show, Code Lyoko and
• In Men Behaving Badly, Valerie Minifie plays Anthea, an employee at Gary's security firm
• In BBC'S Sherlock (TV series), the assistant of Mycroft Holmes calls herself Anthea
• Anthy Himemiya is one of the main characters of the manga Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Anthea is a queen of a desert tribe of "Speaking Mountain" in The Secret of the Sahara
• Anthea is one of the main characters in the Psammead trilogy by E. Nesbit
• Anthea in 2023 superhero film Shazam! Fury of the Gods, played by Rachel Zegler
• Anthea Stonem is the mother of the starring character Effy Stonem in the British TV-show Skins

See also

• Samantha, presumed to be a combination of Samuel and Anthea