Paphos (mythology)
Paphos ( Greek Πάφος ) is the namesake of the city of Paphos on Cyprus in Greek mythology .
She was (according to Ovid ) the daughter of Pygmalion and his ivory statue animated by Aphrodite . In this version, her name is also used to denote the whole island, not just the city.
In the scholias to Pindar's second Pythian Ode she is referred to as the mother of Kinyras , with either Apollo or a Eurymedon being named as the father .
literature
- Ulrich Hoefer : Paphos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1565 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 10, 295-927.
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphosen 10, 297: de qua tenet insula nomen ("from which the island takes its name") and 10, 530: Paphon aequore cinctam ("Paphos surrounded by the sea")
- ↑ Scholion zu Pindar, Pythische Oden 2, 57.