Idalia

A surname of Aphrodite, derived from the town of Idalion in Cyprus.

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References

Sources

  • Bion, i, 36.
  • Ovid. Ars Amatoria; Amores iii, 106.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography xiv, p. 682.
  • Theocritus, xv, 101.
  • Virgil. Aeneid i, 680, 692; v, 760; x, 86.

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