1. The personification of Persuasion (Suada or Suadela among the Romans), was worshipped as a divinity at Sicyon, where she was
honoured with a temple in the agora. (Hdt. 8.11; Paus. 2.7.7.) Peitho also occurs as a surname of other divinities,
such as Aphrodite, whose worship was said to have been introduced at Athens by Theseus, when
he united the country communities into towns (Paus. 1.22.3), and
of Artemis (2.21. 1). At Athens the statues of Peitho and Aphrodite Pandemos stood closely
together, and at Megara, too, the statue of Peitho stood in the temple of Aphrodite (Paus. 1.43.6), so that the two divinities must he conceived as
closely connected, or the one, perhaps, merely as an attribute of the other.