place
Paphos
also: Πάφος
A city on Cyprus with Aphrodite's chief temple and fragrant altar, where the Graces bathe and anoint her before she goes to seduce Anchises.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §5.1 Paphos
A city on Cyprus with Aphrodite's chief temple and fragrant altar, where the Graces bathe and anoint her before she goes to seduce Anchises.
- The Odyssey §8.359 Paphos
The city on Cyprus that holds Aphrodite's precinct and fragrant altar. In Demodocus's song she withdraws there to be bathed and anointed by the Graces after Hephaestus's net exposes her with Ares.