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Location information
Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors
for wider area of: "PAPHOS
Town
CYPRUS"
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Monuments reported by ancient authors (2)
Ancient oracles
Oracle of Aphrodite
An oracle of Aphrodite existed at Paphos in Cyprus, and was consulted by Titus (Tac. Hist. ii. 3, 4).
Ancient sanctuaries
Sanctuary of Aphrodite
After the capture of Troy the storm that overtook the Greeks on their return home carried Agapenor and the Arcadian fleet to Cyprus, and so Agapenor became the founder of Paphos, and built the sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos (Old Paphos).
- Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Arcadia
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