Google Share on Facebook Aphrodite (redirected fromKypris) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Aph·ro·di·te (ăf′rə-dī′tē) n.Greek Mythology The goddess of love and beauty. Also calledCytherea. [GreekAphrodītē,of Phoenician origin; seeʕṯtrinSemitic roots.] ...
Kypris,Kythereiaand the Fifth Book of theIliadA. C. Cassio1. At the very beginning of Euripides’Hippolytosthe goddess Aphroditeappears on stage and presents herself ashe±J}pqir.1This is hardly sur-prising: in Greek tragedyJ}pqiris just a convenient metrical variant of)vqod_tg–as a mat...