Golgi
Γολγοί
Eth. Golgi (Γολγοί: Eth.Γόλγιος, Eth.Γολγία, Eth. Γολ<>ηίς, Steph. B. sub voce a town of Cyprus, famous for the worship of Aphrodite (Theocr. 15.100; Lycophr. 589; Catull. 36.15, Nupt. Pel. et Thet. 96), which, according to legend, had existed here even before its introduction at Paphos by Agapenor. (Pausan 8.5.2.) The town is mentioned by Pliny (5.35); but its position is not known. (Engel, Kypros, vol. i. p. 145, vol. ii. p. 81.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.