- Cyprus. (Pausanias viii. 5. § 2.) An
Agapenor was
mentioned as king of the
Paphians in a Gr****
distich preserved in the Analecta; and
Herodotus (vii. 90) alludes...
- ἀμφίεσις
amphiesis clothing, Hsch. ὑεστάκα huestaka) Φάπη Phapê Παφία
Paphia (
Paphian Aphrodite)
Wiktionary has a
category on
Arcadocypriot Ancient Gr****. Hesychius...
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carved out of
solid rock, and are
thought to have been the
burial sites of
Paphian aristocrats and high
officials up to the
third century AD (the name comes...
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alongside the
goddesses Aphrodite (called by the
epithets Cythereia and
Paphian), Leto, Artemis, Athena, Hebe and Hera. Harmonia,
daughter of Aphrodite...
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having come to
Cyprus from Cilicia,
whence he
introduced the
worship of
Paphian Aphrodite. The
divination practices at the
temple are said to have been...
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different subtypes based on area: the "Common" and the South-Western or "
Paphian". The
script was
deciphered in the 19th
century by
George Smith due to...
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first to
establish a cult of
Aphrodite were the ****yrians,
followed by the
Paphians of
Cyprus and then the
Phoenicians at Ascalon. The Phoenicians, in turn...
- the
native Athenians the
Cecropian Minerva; the island-dwelling
Cypriots Paphian Venus; the
archer Cretans Dictynnan Diana; the triple-tongued Sicilians...
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guileful girdle. This one puts to
shame the
heart bewitching girdle of the
Paphian [Aphrodite]." This said, the
wilyminded deity was off
under the wind, cleaving...
- of ****us, High King of
Mycenae [...],
marched vengefully against the
Paphians and Teleboans. [...]
While he was away, his
nephew King
Amphitryon of Troezen...
