Apatu'ria
2. A surname of Aphrodite at Phanagoria and other places in the Taurian Chersonesus, where it originated, according fo tradition, in this way : Aphrodite was attacked by giants, and called Heracles to her assistance.
He concealed himself with her in a cavern, and as the giants approached her one by one, she surrendered them to Heracles to kill them. (
Strab. xi. p.495; Steph. Byz.
s. v. Ἀπάτουρον.)
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