Paphia

A surname of Aphrodite, derived from the celebrated temple of the goddess at Paphos in Cyprus. A statue of Aphrodite Paphia also stood in the sanctuary of Ino, between Oetylus and Thalamae in Laconia.

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References

Sources

  • Homeric Hymns. Hymn to Aphrodite, 59.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 36.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 14.2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography xiv, p. 683.
  • Tacitus. Historiae ii, 2.

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