(), of BERGA in
Thrace, a Greek writer on marvellous and incredible things. (Ἄπιστα, Scymnius Chius, 657, &c.) From the manner in which he is mentioned
by Strabo (i. p.47, ii. pp. 102, 104; comp. Plb. 33.12), it would seem that he wrote his stories with a view that
they should be believed as history, and that consequently he was an impostor. It was owing to
Antiphanes that the verb βεργαΐζειν was used in the
sense of telling stories. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Βέργη, who however confounds our Antiphanes with the comic writer of
Rhodes; comp. Clem. Al. Strom. i. p. 133; Phot. Bibl. 166.) Most writers agree in believing, that Antiphanes
of Berga is the same as the Antiphanes who wrote a work on courtezans (περὶ ἑταιρῶν), and whom some writers call Antiphanes the
Younger. (Athen. 13.586; Harpocrat. s. vv.Νάννιον, Ἀντίκυρα; Suid. s. v.Νάνιον.)