Cytherea

Or Cythera (Κυθήρα) or Cytherias (Κυθηριάς), different forms of a surname of Aphrodite, derived from the town of Cythera in Crete, or from the island of Cythera, where the goddess was said to have first landed, and where she had a celebrated temple.

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References

Sources

  • Anacr., v, 9.
  • Herodotus. Histories i, 105.
  • Homer. Odyssey viii, 288.
  • Horace. Carmina i, 4. 5.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 23.1.
  • 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.