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The goddess Aphrodite was the protector deity of the city of Corinth. She had at least three sanctuaries in the city; the temple of Aphrodite at the Acrocorinth, the temple of Aphrodite II, and the Temple of Aphrodite Kraneion, as well as one temple at Leachaion and one at Cenchreae. It was however the Aphrodite temple of Acrocorinth that was ...
Temple of Aphrodite, Kythira; M. Mount Olympus (Cyprus) S. Sanctuary of Aphrodite Aphrodisias; ... Sanctuary of the Mother of Gods and Aphrodite; Temple of Aphrodite ...
She [Aphrodite] went to Kypros, to Paphos, where her precinct is and fragrant altar, and passed into her sweet-smelling temple. [9] Strabo described it: Palaipaphos [in Kypros], which last is situated at about ten stadia above the sea, has a mooring-place, and an ancient temple of Aphrodite Paphia. Then [beyond that] to the promontory Zephyria ...
The Temple of Aphrodite Kytherea was a sanctuary in ancient Kythira dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite. It was famous for reportedly being the eldest temple of Aphrodite in Greece. [1] It was dedicated to the goddess under her name and aspect as Aphrodite Ourania and contained a statue of an Armed Aphrodite. [2] The temple is dated to the 6th ...
The Tessarakonteres, a gigantic catamaran galley designed by Archimedes for Ptolemy IV Philopator, had a circular temple to Aphrodite on it with a marble statue of the goddess herself. [89] In the second century BC, Ptolemy VIII Physcon and his wives Cleopatra II and Cleopatra III dedicated a temple to Aphrodite Hathor at Philae. [89]
Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThere was once a man in Greece who longed to build himself an immense banqueting hall, where he could sit and feast all day and night. So he ...
The temple of Aphrodite in Sparta was regarded to be peculiar in the rest of Greece because the goddess was depicted in full armour. However, it is acknowledged that all the gods and goddesses depicted in Sparta was wearing armour, and though this may not have been technically true, it was regarded as a Spartan trait.
The temple of Aphrodite Urania is likely only a little later in date. [27] When the temple was built, the ground level in front of it was raised 1.37 metres above the original level and covered with a layer of cobbles. [22] Ceramics in this layer of fill show that these earthworks (and the temple) date to the first half of the first century AD ...