in Grecian antiquity, public entertainments first instituted by Minos of Crete, and, after his example, appointed by Lycurgus at Sparta, at which a whole city or a tribe assisted. They were managed with the utmost frugality, and persons of all ages were admitted, the younger sort being obliged by the law-giver to repair thither, as to schools of temperance and sobriety.

Andria, among some naturalists, denotes an hermaphroditical woman. See HERMAPHRODITE.

Andria, in geography, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, situated in E. long. 17°, and N. lat. 41° 6'. It is a bishop's see.