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She found that the city’s most beautiful Roman temple, dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, stood on the site of the crucifixion.
At the summit, within three layers of protective wall, are the remains of a Temple of Aphrodite, an early Christian Basilica, Byzantine cisterns, a Frankish Tower, and Ottoman mosques and fountains — this is Greek history in a nutshell!
And mustn't the -malion fragment refer to Pygmalion, the legendary king who fell in love with his sculpture of a woman and persuaded Aphrodite to bring it to life?
Cisneros and Aphrodite
They adopted the Greeks’ gods, convertingZeus into Jupiter, Aphrodite into Venus, and placing the emperor — serving the interests of the Roman state — at the apex of the gods.