Anaxarete spurned him and mocked his feelings until he cried in despair and hanged himself on her doorstep. Anaxarete was still unmoved. When she mocked his funeral, calling it pitiful, Aphrodite turned her into a stone statue. According to Ovid, the statue was preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, in the temple of Venus Prospiciens.
anaxarete spurned him and mocked his feelings until he cried in despair and hanged himself on her doorstep anaxarete was still unmoved when she mocked his funeral calling it pitiful aphrodite turned her into a stone statue according to ovid the statue was preserved at salamis in cyprus in the temple of venus prospiciens