Antiphemus
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Antiphemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίφημος) was a man from ancient Greece from Rhodes who was the founder of Gela, around 690 BCE. The colony was composed of Rhodians and Cretans, the latter led by Entimus the Cretan,[1][2] the former chiefly from Lindus,[3] and to this town Antiphemus himself belonged.[4]
From the Etymologicum Magnum[5] and Aristaenetus in Stephanus of Byzantium[6] it appears the tale ran that Antiphemus and his brother Lacius, the founder of Phaselis, were, when at Delphi, suddenly bid to go forth, one eastward, one westward; and from his laughing at the unexpected response, the city took its name. From Pausanias we hear of his taking the Sicanian town of Omphace as an oikistes,[7] and carrying off from it a statue made by the legendary Daedalus.[8][9][10][11][12]
The 19th century scholar Karl Otfried Müller considered Antiphemus a mythical person.[13]
