Paphia
Παφία
(Παφία,), a surname of Aphrodite, derived from the celebrated temple of the goddess at Paphos in Cyprus. A statue of Aphrodite Paphia also stood in the sanctuary of Ino, between Oetvlus and Thalamae in Laconia. (Paus. 3.36; Tac. Hist. 2.2; Hom. Hymn. in Ven. 59; Apollod. 3.14.2; Strab. xiv. p.683.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.