place
Cyprus
also: Κύπρος, the Cyprian
The eastern Mediterranean island sacred to Aphrodite, whose 'battlements' she claims as her portion when the waves carry her ashore there newborn (Hymn 6); Hymns 5, 7, and 10 also name it as her island.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §5.1 Cyprus
The eastern Mediterranean island sacred to Aphrodite, whose 'battlements' she claims as her portion when the waves carry her ashore there newborn (Hymn 6); Hymns 5, 7, and 10 also name it as her island.
- The Odyssey §4.78 Cyprus
One of the lands Menelaus wandered through before finally reaching home.