Colias

A surname of Aphrodite, who had a statue on the Attic promontory of Colias. Strabo1 places a sanctuary of Aphrodite Colias in the neighborhood of Anaphlystus.

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References

Notes

  1. ix, p. 398.

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 1.4; comp. Herodotus. Histories viii, 96.
  • Scholiast on Aristophanes' Clouds, 56.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.