Rutas comerciales fenicias en el Egeo. Expansión del culto de Afrodita. Rasgos guerreros.

Abstract

The expansion of Aphrodite’s cult for Greece from Cyprus was a complex phenomenon that lasted during the Dark Age and Archaic Period. The Phoenicians and their trade routes, frequented by Greeks, Phoenicians and Cypriots, played, undoubtedly, an important role in the expansion of the cult since the X Century BC. The Phoenicians left a notable stamp in Greek-Cypriot Aphrodite’s worship, and influenced, together with other factors, the mythological and cultic development of some features of the Goddess, since undoubtedly, her relation with the war.