Anaktoria

vol. I p. 2051

Anaktoria (Ἀνακτορία),

the former name of the Milesian region, according to the autochthonous king Anax, Paus. VII 2, 5. Steph. Byz. see Μίλητος. Hierokl. ed. Parthey Append. III p. 318, 135

[Hirschfeld.]

(from supplement vol. I p.76)

2) A female student of Sappho, in Maxim. Tyr. I 24, 9, see the article Anagora in this supplement.

[Crusius.]

(from supplement vol. I pp.74-75)

Anagora,

from Miletus (Ἀναγόρα Μιλησία), one of Sappho’s μαθήτριαι according to Suidas, see Σαπφώ, Σίμωνος (Hesych. Miles. p. 191 Fl.). It’s thought that the name should be considered as a misreading of Ἀνακτορία, as a student of Sappho’s is called in Maximus Tyrius I 24, 9 (hence O. Müller Litt.-Gesch. I 320, following that Flach Gesch. d. griech. Lyrik 498 etc.). This assumption is incorrect. Ἀν-αγόρα is a rare, though perfectly correct form of the name; <page break 74/75> Ἀν-αγόρας exists in inscriptions in Chios (Bull. hell. III 242, 4), the feminine correlate shouldn’t be surprising in Miletus (because of this, conjectures like Ἁγν-αγόρα are also not useful). O. Müller came to his conclusion because of his observation that Miletus itself was once called Ἀνακτορία (see vol. I p. 2051 [this exact article, just above], where evidence from Schol. Apoll. Rhod. I 185. Eustath. I 8 p. 21 should be presented). If you want to put such great meaning onto this coincidence, you would have to look in Ἀνακτορία for something] prior to an old demonym along the lines of Μιλησία (Ἀναγόρα Ἀνακτορία = Ἀναγόρα Μιλησία). But certainty can only come with new discoveries, as we likely can expect following the emergence of the Berlin Sappho fragments, which bring us into the circle of the μαθήτριαι (see Schubart S.-Ber. Akad. Berl. 1902, 195).

[Crusius.]