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|Definition=ἡ, [[Aphaia]], name of divinity in Aegina, ''IG''4.1580; cf. | |Definition=ἡ, [[Aphaia]], name of divinity in Aegina, ''IG''4.1580; cf. [[Ἀφαία]]· ἡ [[Δίκτυννα]], καὶ [[Ἄρτεμις]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] | ||
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|wketx=Aphaia (Greek: Ἀφαία, Aphaía) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. | |wketx=[[Aphaia]] (Greek: [[Ἀφαία]], Aphaía) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. | ||
She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle. Under the later Athenian hegemony she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias: | She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle. Under the later Athenian hegemony she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias: | ||