A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Κωλιάς), a surname of Aphrodite, who had a statue on the Attic promontory of Colias. (Paus. 1.1.4; comp. Hdt. 8.96; Schol. ad Aristoph. Nub. 56.) Strabo (ix. p.398) places a sanctuary of Aphrodite Colias in the neighbourhood of Anaphlystus.

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