. ess whoruled the moon and stars,who guided the mariners,and who ruled the sea. Sheis represented in Greek artseated on a flying swan(also on a globe, or stand-ing on a tortoise), some-times with a star-spangledsky as background. A stelefound at Kertsch is dedi-cated to Aphrodite Oura-nia, who rules the Bospo-rus. On the other hand,A<ppoSirri nacSrj/xos (who isrepresented riding on agoat) was no less recog-nised as an honoured deityin the state cult, nor washer worship committed topriestesses of low repute;she is called ffefiv-r)

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. ess whoruled the moon and stars,who guided the mariners,and who ruled the sea. Sheis represented in Greek artseated on a flying swan(also on a globe, or stand-ing on a tortoise), some-times with a star-spangledsky as background. A stelefound at Kertsch is dedi-cated to Aphrodite Oura-nia, who rules the Bospo-rus. On the other hand,A<ppoSirri nacSrj/xos (who isrepresented riding on agoat) was no less recog-nised as an honoured deityin the state cult, nor washer worship committed topriestesses of low repute;she is called ffefiv-r), and herpriestess in one inscriptionis specially stated to be amarried woman and not acourtesan. The probabilityis that she represents theoriginal goddess of loveworshipped in Greece, andthat the statement of Pausanias that shewas so called when the demes of Attica wereunited, should be accepted. It was a later ideaof philosophers and moralists to give to ovpaviathe sense of ennobling, and to )tios of de-basing, love, and again to make the former the. Aphrodite of Melos.(Venus of Milo : Louvrein Paris.)

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