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Antinomianism
Antinomianism, from Greek for "against law," is the doctrine or charge that Christians are freed by grace from obeying God's moral law, coined by Martin Luther against Johannes Agricola.
Antinous (Ἀντίνοος)
Antinous (Antinoos) was a Bithynian youth and companion of Emperor Hadrian who drowned in the Nile in 130 CE, after which Hadrian deified him extravagantly.
Antioch College
Antioch College, also called Antioch, is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, founded 1852 under Horace Mann, pioneer of co-op work education, closed 2008, reopened independently 2011, separate from Antioch University.
Antiochus III the Great (Ἀντίοχος Γ΄ ὁ Μέγας)
Antiochus III the Great (Ἀντίοχος Γ΄ ὁ Μέγας, r. 223/222–187 BC), Seleucid king, second son of Seleucus II; restored the eastern empire, won Coele-Syria at Panium (200), but lost to Rome at Magnesia (190) and accepted the Treaty of Apamea (188).
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Ἀντίοχος ὁ Ἐπιφανής)
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Ἀντίοχος ὁ Ἐπιφανής), Seleucid king 175–164 BC, born Mithradates; conquered Egypt, outlawed Judaism in Judea triggering the Maccabean revolt, halted by Rome's 168 ultimatum, died in Elymais 164.
Antiochus IV of Commagene
Antiochus IV of Commagene, also known as Antiokhos, was the last king of Commagene, a Roman client kingdom, ruling from AD 38 until Rome annexed it in AD 72.
Antiokh Kantemir
Antiokh Kantemir (Антиох Кантемир), 1708–1744, was a Russian prince, satirical poet, and diplomat who served Empress Anna Ivanovna as envoy in London and then Paris.
Antios Therapeutics Inc.
Antios Therapeutics Inc. was an American biotechnology company founded in 2018 to develop a curative oral regimen for chronic hepatitis B; it shut down in 2024.
Antipater of Tarsus
Antipater of Tarsus (Ἀντίπατρος ὁ Ταρσεύς), 2nd-century BCE Greek Stoic, sixth scholarch of the Athenian Stoa after Diogenes of Babylon; teacher of Panaetius, respondent to Carneades, author of On the cosmos and On divination.
Antipope
An antipope is a claimant to the papal office judged, after the conflict settled, to have claimed the see of Rome illegitimately against a recognized rival pope.
Antipope Clement III
Antipope Clement III, born Wibert of Ravenna around 1025, was an antipope elected in 1080 against Gregory VII who crowned Henry IV emperor in 1084 and died in 1100.
Antipope John XXIII
Antipope John XXIII, born Baldassare Cossa around 1370, claimed the papacy from 1410 to 1415 during the Western Schism and was deposed by the Council of Constance.
Antiqua et nova
Antiqua et nova, Latin for "old and new," is a Catholic doctrinal note on artificial intelligence issued by the Vatican in January 2025, holding that AI should complement, not replace, human intelligence.
Antiquarian
Antiquarian (antiquary): a person who studies or collects old, valuable, or rare objects. From Latin antiquarius; a European scholarly tradition from the Renaissance that preceded and shaped archaeology.
Antiquities Act
The Antiquities Act is a federal statute signed in 1906 that safeguards historic and natural resources on public lands. It authorizes the President to declare national monuments.
Antiquities of the Jews (Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία)
Antiquities of the Jews (Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία), or Jewish Antiquities, is Flavius Josephus's twenty-book Greek history of the Jewish people, published 93/94 CE, covering Creation to 66 CE and modeled on Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
Antiquities Preservation Law
The Antiquities Preservation Law (古物保存法) was a 1930 law of the Republic of China making buried antiquities state property and restricting excavation to government-run institutions.
Antisaccade task
The antisaccade task is an eye-movement test requiring a person to suppress a glance toward a sudden cue and look the opposite way, used as a clinical marker.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism is prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people, rooted in early Christian anti-Judaism and later secular economic, nationalist, and racial forms; it culminated in the Nazi Holocaust and persists today, with contested definitions like the IHRA working definition.
Antisemitism in Australia
Antisemitism in Australia: hostility toward Jews from colonial-era immigration discrimination through the post-October 2023 surge in incidents, the Bondi Beach 2025 massacre, and the royal commission response.
Antisemitism in Christianity
Antisemitism in Christianity is hostility toward Jews and Judaism expressed, justified, or transmitted by Christian churches and institutions, from supersessionism and the deicide charge to the Holocaust and its later repudiation.
Antisemitism in Europe
Antisemitism in Europe: hatred of Jews from early Christian anti-Judaism through medieval expulsions (England 1290, Spain 1492), 19th-century racial antisemitism, the Holocaust, and today's post-October 7 surge.
Antisemitism in Islam
Antisemitism in Islam covers anti-Jewish attitudes in Islamic texts, law, and modern Muslim politics, from the subordinate dhimmi status of Jews under classical rule to modern radical Islamist and Israel-related antisemitism, with survey data on Muslim populations.
Antisemitism in Poland
Antisemitism in Poland covers hostility toward Jews from the interwar period, the Holocaust, the 1946 Kielce pogrom, and the 1968 communist expulsion of about 15,000 Jews to present-day monitoring: 125 officially recorded hate crimes in 2024 versus 1,493 incidents documented by the Jewish Association Czulent.
Antisemitism in the Soviet Union
Antisemitism in the Soviet Union: official repudiation of antisemitism alongside suppression of Jewish religion and culture, Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaign and Doctors' Plot, informal quotas, the 1972 diploma tax, and post-Soviet legacy.
Antisemitism in the United States
Antisemitism in the United States: prejudice and discrimination against American Jews, tracked by the ADL Audit (since 1979) and FBI hate-crime data; record 9,354 incidents in 2024, 6,274 in 2025, deadly attacks including Pittsburgh's Tree of Life and the 2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting.
Antisemitism on social media
Antisemitism on social media covers explicit and coded anti-Jewish hate on platforms like X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and 4chan. It surged after 7 October 2023, evades automated moderation, and is monitored using the IHRA definition.
Antisemitism on Wikipedia
Antisemitism on Wikipedia: documented antisemitic and anti-Israel bias in Wikipedia content and editing, per ADL 2025-2026 reports on coordinated editors, ArbCom bans, ADL source disputes, and Wikimedia Foundation responses.
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
AEDPA, Public Law 104-132 (S. 735), signed April 24, 1996 after the Oklahoma City bombing; a US antiterrorism statute best known for restricting federal habeas corpus review via 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d).
Antitheism
Antitheism is active opposition to theism, belief in God, or religion as such, rather than mere disbelief; an antitheist need not be an atheist, and its most visible form came through New Atheism.