Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Aphrodisia

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Aphrodisia

（τὰ Ἀφροδίσια). Festivals celebrated in many towns of Greece in honour of Aphrodité (q.v.). The especial seat of her worship was at Cyprus. No bloody sacrifices were permitted to be offered, but only pure fire, flowers, and incense. The initiated also offered a piece of money to the goddess as a harlot; and received a measure of salt symbolizing the origin of Aphrodité in the sea, and a phallus as expressive of the sexual function.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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