place
Cyprus
also: Κύπρος
The great eastern-Mediterranean island where Aphrodite came ashore in her birth-myth; her oldest and most famous cult seats stood there, and 'Cypris' — the lady of Cyprus — is Sappho's favorite name for her.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Book One §35 Cyprus
The island of Aphrodite's birth-myth and oldest worship; to ask which sanctuary 'holds' the goddess is the standard form of a Greek summons-prayer, listing the places she might be found.