ANAPHE (anc. geog.), an island spontaneously emerging out of the Cretan sea, near Thera (Pliny, Strabo); now called Naxos. Its name is from the sudden appearance of the new moon to the Argonauts in a storm (Apollonius), Anaphæus, an epithet of Apollo, who was worshipped there. Anaphæi, the people.