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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 3.23.1

Κύθηρα δὲ κεῖται μὲν ἀπαντικρὺ Βοιῶν, ἐς δὲ Πλατανιστοῦντα—ἐλάχιστον γὰρ τῆς ἠπείρου ταύτῃ διέστηκεν ἡ νῆσος—ἐς ταύτην τὴν ἄκραν τὸν Πλατανιστοῦντα ἀπὸ ἄκρας τῆς ἠπείρου, καλουμένης δὲ Ὄνου γνάθου, σταδίων πλοῦς τεσσαράκοντά ἐστιν. ἐν Κυθήροις δὲ ἐπὶ θαλάσσης Σκάνδειά ἐστιν ἐπίνειον, Κύθηρα δὲ ἡ πόλις ἀναβάντι ἀπὸ Σκανδείας στάδια ὡς δέκα. τὸ δὲ ἱερὸν τῆς Οὐρανίας ἁγιώτατον καὶ ἱερῶν ὁπόσα Ἀφροδίτης παρʼ Ἕλλησίν ἐστιν ἀρχαιότατον· αὐτὴ δὲ ἡ θεὸς ξόανον ὡπλισμένον. 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.

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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 192-198, 205, 934, 1008 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1008. In tumults and in battles revelling.
2. Homer, Iliad, 5.330-5.331, 5.428-5.429 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 5.330. /He the while had gone in pursuit of Cypris with his pitiless bronze, discerning that she was a weakling goddess, and not one of those that lord it in the battle of warriors,—no Athene she, nor Enyo, sacker of cities. But when he had come upon her as he pursued her through the great throng 5.331. /He the while had gone in pursuit of Cypris with his pitiless bronze, discerning that she was a weakling goddess, and not one of those that lord it in the battle of warriors,—no Athene she, nor Enyo, sacker of cities. But when he had come upon her as he pursued her through the great throng 5.428. /she hath scratched upon her golden brooch her delicate hand. So spake she, but the father of men and gods smiled, and calling to him golden Aphrodite, said:Not unto thee, my child, are given works of war; nay, follow thou after the lovely works of marriage 5.429. /she hath scratched upon her golden brooch her delicate hand. So spake she, but the father of men and gods smiled, and calling to him golden Aphrodite, said:Not unto thee, my child, are given works of war; nay, follow thou after the lovely works of marriage
3. Homer, Odyssey, 8.266-8.366, 18.193 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
4. Sappho, Fragments, 5 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
5. Sappho, Fragments, 5 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
6. Sappho, Fragments, 5 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
7. Herodotus, Histories, 1.105, 1.105.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.105. From there they marched against Egypt : and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and prayers to come no further. ,So they turned back, and when they came on their way to the city of Ascalon in Syria, most of the Scythians passed by and did no harm, but a few remained behind and plundered the temple of Heavenly Aphrodite. ,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 . ,But the Scythians who pillaged the temple, and all their descendants after them, were afflicted by the goddess with the “female” sickness: and so the Scythians say that they are afflicted as a consequence of this and also that those who visit Scythian territory see among them the condition of those whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”. 1.105.3. 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 .
8. 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.
9. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.243-10.297, 10.503-10.739 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
10. 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.
11. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.14.7, 2.5.1, 3.15.10 (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. 2.5.1. On the summit of the Acrocorinthus is a temple of Aphrodite. The images are Aphrodite armed, Helius, and Eros with a bow. The spring, which is behind the temple, they say was the gift of Asopus to Sisyphus. The latter knew, so runs the legend, that Zeus had ravished Aegina, the daughter of Asopus, but refused to give information to the seeker before he had a spring given him on the Acrocorinthus. When Asopus granted this request Sisyphus turned informer, and on this account he receives—if anyone believes the story—punishment in Hades. I have heard people say that this spring and Peirene are the same, the water in the city flowing hence under-ground. 3.15.10. Not far from the theater is a sanctuary of Poseidon God of Kin, and there are hero-shrines of Cleodaeus, son of Hyllus, and of Oebalus. The most famous of their sanctuaries of Asclepius has been built near Booneta, and on the left is the hero-shrine of Teleclus. I shall mention him again later in my history of Messenia . See Paus. 4.4.2, and Paus. 4.31.3 . A little farther on is a small hill, on which is an ancient temple with a wooden image of Aphrodite armed. This is the only temple I know that has an upper storey built upon it.
12. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.2891-4.2941 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acrocorinth,cult statue of aphrodite of	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
aphrodite,ares and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
aphrodite,athena and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
aphrodite,images and iconography	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
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, 252
aphrodite,origins and development	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
aphrodite,ourania	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, 252
aphrodite,sanctuaries and temples	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
aphrodite,zeus and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
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, 252; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
aphrodite (goddess,aka mylitta,ailat,mitra)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
aphrodite urania	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
ares,aphrodite and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
ascalon (syria),temple of urania	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
asheri,david	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
assimilation	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, 252
assyria	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, 252
astarte	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, 252
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
athena,aphrodite and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
burkert,walter	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
cadmus and cadmeians	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
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, 252
diomedes	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, 252
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, 252
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, 252
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, 252
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, 252
hathor	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, 252
hekate	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, 252
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,on aphrodite	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
hesiod,theogony	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
homer,on aphrodite	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
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, 252
identification,- between different deities	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, 252
inanna	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, 252
isis	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, 252
ištar	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, 252
kumarbi	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
kythera,sanctuary of urania on	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
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
offerings (including sacrifice)	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, 252
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, 252
persephone/kore	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, 252
phoenician culture and religion	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
phoenicians	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
ritual experts/magicians	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, 252
rosenzweig,rachel	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
salmoneus	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
sanctuaries and temples,of aphrodite	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
sparta,cult statue of aphrodite of	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
syncretism	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, 252
thebes,aphrodite in	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
underworld,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, 252
vegetal material	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, 252
voces magicae'	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, 252
weddings and marriages,ares and aphrodite	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
west,martin l.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 379
zeus,aphrodite and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 256
zeus	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, 252