aphrodite and africa are actually cognates, hue. > etymology of "afrika": > the present name of africa was used first by scipio africanus, conqueror of carthago, and has meant originally only the region around carthago and utica where the libyan people of the afri were living. the afri claimed their descent from aphros, therefore the name aphroi (lat. afri). after the victory over carthago in 146 bc the name africa was extended by the romans under the name africa proconsularis up to the border of egypt. the continent itself was called libya > according to georgios kedrenos, a byzantine historian of the 11th resp.12th century, who has written in his "concise history of the world" about the etymology of the afri, aphros was the husband of astynome, who bore aphrodite to him. naturally aphrodite and aphros have the same etymology (gr. aphros = foam). astonyme herself came from the "island" of lakeria, which is nothing other than the thessalian city of lakereia at magnesia the home of cheiron and philyra too. these all was a explanation remodelled especially for the african etymology (pauly's realenzyklopdie). and here seems to be the source of the mythology that aphros was the son of kronos and philyra and thereby the brother of cheiron
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