Melaenis

I.e. the dark, a surname of Aphrodite, under which she was worshiped at Corinth.

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References

Sources

  • Athenaeus, xiii, p. 588.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 2.4; comp. viii, 6.2; ix, 17.4.
  • 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.