Cypria

Or Cypris (Κύπρις), Cyprigeneia (Κυπριγένεια), Cyprogenes (Κυπρογένης), surnames of Aphrodite, who was born in the island of Cyprus, which was also one of the principal seats of her worship.

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References

Sources

  • Homer. Iliad v, 458.
  • Horace. Carmina i, 3.1.
  • Pindar. Olympian Odes i, 120, xii, 125; Pythian Odes iv, 383.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Tibullus, iii, 3.34.

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