Temple of Aphrodite Urania

The Temple of Aphrodite Urania (Greek:"Αφροδίτη Ουρανία") is a temple located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens and dedicated to the Greek goddess Aphrodite under her epithet Urania.[1]

According to Pausanias, the sanctuary had a marble statue of the deity sculpted by the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias. Today, there are a few number of saved stones on the slope of the hill beside the train tracks and near the temple of her husband Hephaestus.

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  1. ^ plato-dialogues.org/tools/agora.htm, URL accessed on June 2, 2008.