CYTHE'RA, CYTHEREIA, CYTHE'RIAS
*Kuqh/ra, (
*Kuqe/reia,
Κυθηριάς), different forms of a surname of Aphrodite, derived from the town of Cythera in Crete, or from the island of Cythera, where the goddess was said to have first landed, and where she had a celebrated temple. (
Hom. Od. 8.288;
Hdt. 1.105;
Paus. 3.23.1 ; Anacr. 5.9;
Hor. Carm. 1.4.5.)
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