Cnidia

A surname of Aphrodite, derived from the town of Cnidus in Caria, for which Praxiteles made his celebrated statue of the goddess. The statue of Aphrodite known by the name of the Medicean Venus, is considered by many critics to be a copy of the Cnidian Aphrodite.

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References

Sources

  • Hirt, A. (1805). Bilderbuch für Mythologie p. 57.
  • Lucian. Amores, 13.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 1.3.
  • Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia xxxvi, 5.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.