Anadyom'ené

Anadyom'ené ('emerging'), the goddess rising out of the sea, a name given to Aphrodite from her being born of the foam of the sea. Apelles gave the name its celebrity from his masterpiece, a painting of the goddess in the moment of rising from the sea, wringing her flowing wet hair. Phryne was supposed to have supplied the model for this masterpiece of Apelles. The inhabitants of the island of Cos bought the picture, and placed it in the temple of Æsculapius. Augustus afterwards placed it in the temple of Venus as the ancestor of the Julian house.