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Aphrodite, who, first of courtesans, had been deified by her lover Cinyras, king of Cyprus.
ORIGINS OF RELIGION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968
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_Zmyrna_, on the incestuous love of Myrrha for Cinyras.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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_Hunting of the Boar_, _Cinyras and Myrrha_, the good-natured story of _Baucis and Philemon_, with the rest, which I hope I have translated closely enough, and given them the same turn of verse which they had in the original; and this, I may say without vanity, is not the talent of every poet.
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In the popular theology, Adonis was the son of Cinyras, king of Cyrus, whose untimely death was wept by Venus and her attendant nymphs: in the physical theology of the philosophers, [22] he was a symbol of the sun, alternately present to and absent from the earth; but in the initiation into the Mysteries of his worship, his resurrection and return from Hades were adopted as a type of the immortality of the soul.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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In mythology, the son of Cinyras and Myrrha, who was greatly beloved by Venus, or Aphrodite.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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The Cypriotes no longer knew whether Cinyras were god, or man, or myth; whether he were the son of Apollo, or of Pygmalion and the bewitching ivory image of the sculptor's dead wife; or, in very truth, that splendid prince of Agamemnon's time, as sung by Homer in the Iliad, winning laurels at the siege of Troy.
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull
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Cinyras is said to have been famed for his exquisite beauty and to have been wooed by Aphrodite herself.
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Among the stories which were told of Cinyras, the ancestor of the priestly kings of Paphos and the father of Adonis, there are some that deserve our attention.
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Both were great seats of the worship of Aphrodite, or rather of her Semitic counterpart, Astarte; and of both, if we accept the legends, Cinyras, the father of Adonis, was king.
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The last king of Byblus bore the ancient name of Cinyras, and was beheaded by Pompey the Great for his tyrannous excesses.
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