Anthea Revealed
A series of scan-o-grams thinking about and looking at what nature presented to me and left behind to ponder further. Archival Inkjet prints using the scanner as a camera.
Anthea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
From the Greek word Antheia, Derived from (anthos) meaning “flower, blossom”. This was an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera.
The girl’s name Anthea is pronounced ahn-THEE-ah. It is of Greek origin, and its meaning is “flowery.” Latinized spelling of Greek Antheia.
Used in the classical period as a byname of the goddess Hera at Argos, but as a modern given name, it was reinvented by English 17th-century poets to symbolize spring.
