Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aphroditus or Aphroditos (Greek: ) was a male Aphrodite originating from Amathus on the island of Cyprus and celebrated in Athens in a transvestite rite.Aphroditus was portrayed as having a female shape and clothing like Aphrodite's but also a beard and phallus, and hence, a male name. This deity would have arrived in Athens from Cyprus in the 4th century BC. In the ...