Migonitis

"Union." A surname of Aphrodite. It is derived from Migonium, near the island of Cranae in Laconia. After he had eloped with Helen, Paris founded the sanctuary of Aphrodite Migonitis there.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 22.1-2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.