Antaios (magazine)

Role models for Antaios were the Eranos yearbooks, the cultural magazine Merkur and Mircea Eliade's journal Zalmoxis [ro].

Ernst Jünger had been impressed by Zalmoxis and accepted to edit the magazine with Eliade; other people who had been approached but rejected the position included Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell and Karl Jaspers.

[1] Although Eliade's and Jünger's names were closely associated with the magazine, their involvement as editors was very limited, and it was Wolff-Windegg who handled the selection of writers and articles.

[2] The first six issues were published with the subtitle Zeitschrift für eine freie Welt (lit.

[1] Due to the failure to increase the readership and Klett's acquisition of Merkur in 1968, Antaios was discontinued in 1971.