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You couldn't count them all. The worship of Aphrodite in ancient Greek culture began centuries before the Greeks started to build temples. Smaller shrines and dedicated sites, usually connected to a spring of water, could be found all over the Greek cultural world. The islands of Cythera and Crete both had ancient sites dedicated to Aphrodite and each claimed that she originated there. In the ancient Greek city of Knidos that stood on the shore of modern Turkey, a famous sculpture of nude Aphrodite made by the Greek Praxiteles inspired thousands of copies in ancient times and again since the Renaissance: the Cnidian Aphrodite. Romans worshiped Aphrodite as Venus and also built temples dedicated to the goddess.

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