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Herodotus, Histories, 1.105.3
nan This temple, I discover from making inquiry, is the oldest of all the temples of the goddess, for the temple in Cyprus was founded from it, as the Cyprians themselves say; and the temple on Cythera was founded by Phoenicians from this same land of Syria .

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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 192-198, 934, 1008 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1008. In tumults and in battles revelling.
2. Homer, Odyssey, 8.266-8.366, 18.193 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
3. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 180d. what sort we ought to praise. Now this defect I will endeavor to amend, and will first decide on a Love who deserves our praise, and then will praise him in terms worthy of his godhead. We are all aware that there is no Aphrodite or Love-passion without a Love. True, if that goddess were one, then Love would be one: but since there are two of her, there must needs be two Loves also. Does anyone doubt that she is double? Surely there is the elder, of no mother born, but daughter of Heaven, whence we name her Heavenly; while the younger was the child of Zeus and Dione, and her we call Popular.
4. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.243-10.297, 10.503-10.739 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
5. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3.14.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 3.14.4. Ἄδωνις δὲ ἔτι παῖς ὢν Ἀρτέμιδος χόλῳ πληγεὶς ἐν θήρᾳ 1 -- ὑπὸ συὸς ἀπέθανεν. Ἡσίοδος δὲ αὐτὸν Φοίνικος καὶ Ἀλφεσιβοίας λέγει, Πανύασις 2 -- δέ φησι Θείαντος βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων, ὃς ἔσχε θυγατέρα Σμύρναν. αὕτη κατὰ μῆνιν Ἀφροδίτης (οὐ γὰρ αὐτὴν ἐτίμα) ἴσχει τοῦ πατρὸς ἔρωτα, καὶ συνεργὸν λαβοῦσα τὴν τροφὸν ἀγνοοῦντι τῷ πατρὶ νύκτας δώδεκα συνευνάσθη. ὁ δὲ ὡς ᾔσθετο, σπασάμενος τὸ 1 -- ξίφος ἐδίωκεν αὐτήν· ἡ δὲ περικαταλαμβανομένη θεοῖς ηὔξατο ἀφανὴς γενέσθαι. θεοὶ δὲ κατοικτείραντες αὐτὴν εἰς δένδρον μετήλλαξαν, ὃ καλοῦσι σμύρναν. 2 -- δεκαμηνιαίῳ δὲ ὕστερον χρόνῳ τοῦ δένδρου ῥαγέντος γεννηθῆναι τὸν λεγόμενον Ἄδωνιν, ὃν Ἀφροδίτη διὰ κάλλος ἔτι νήπιον κρύφα θεῶν εἰς λάρνακα κρύψασα Περσεφόνῃ παρίστατο. ἐκείνη δὲ ὡς ἐθεάσατο, οὐκ ἀπεδίδου. κρίσεως δὲ ἐπὶ Διὸς γενομένης εἰς τρεῖς μοίρας διῃρέθη ὁ ἐνιαυτός, καὶ μίαν μὲν παρʼ ἑαυτῷ μένειν τὸν Ἄδωνιν, μίαν δὲ παρὰ Περσεφόνῃ προσέταξε, τὴν δὲ ἑτέραν παρʼ Ἀφροδίτῃ· ὁ δὲ Ἄδωνις ταύτῃ προσένειμε καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν μοῖραν. ὕστερον δὲ θηρεύων Ἄδωνις ὑπὸ συὸς πληγεὶς ἀπέθανε.
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.14.7, 3.23.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.14.7. Hard by is a sanctuary of the Heavenly Aphrodite; the first men to establish her cult were the Assyrians, after the Assyrians the Paphians of Cyprus and the Phoenicians who live at Ascalon in Palestine ; the Phoenicians taught her worship to the people of Cythera . Among the Athenians the cult was established by Aegeus, who thought that he was childless (he had, in fact, no children at the time) and that his sisters had suffered their misfortune because of the wrath of Heavenly Aphrodite. The statue still extant is of Parian marble and is the work of Pheidias. One of the Athenian parishes is that of the Athmoneis, who say that Porphyrion, an earlier king than Actaeus, founded their sanctuary of the Heavenly One. But the traditions current among the Parishes often differ altogether from those of the city. 3.23.1. Cythera lies opposite Boeae ; to the promontory of Platanistus, the point where the island lies nearest to the mainland, it is a voyage of forty stades from a promontory on the mainland called Onugnathus. In Cythera is a port Scandeia on the coast, but the town Cythera is about ten stades inland from Scandeia. The sanctuary of Aphrodite Urania (the Heavenly) is most holy, and it is the most ancient of all the sanctuaries of Aphrodite among the Greeks. The goddess herself is represented by an armed image of wood.
7. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.2891-4.2941 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aphrodite,kythereia	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
aphrodite	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
aphrodite (goddess,aka mylitta,ailat,mitra)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
asheri,david	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
astral bodies	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
burkert,walter	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
corcella,aldo	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
cyprus	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
divine epithets	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
erotic magic	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
gods and goddesses,origins	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
gods and goddesses,pantheon	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
greek literature	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
greek magic,ritual and religion	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
hephaistos (god)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
herodotos	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
hesiod,theogony	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
homeric hymns,aphrodite	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
hymns,- greek	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
hymns,- magical'	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
kythera	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
levantine culture and religion	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
lipinski,edward	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
lloyd,alan b.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
myth/mythology,origin of the gods	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
ouranos	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 240
phoenician culture and religion	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
rosenzweig,rachel	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
west,martin l.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379