As goddess of the _sea_, and maritime traffic, especially of calm seas, and prosperous voyages, she was widely worshipped by sailors and fishermen as the goddess of _calm_. Her influence was also felt in the gardens among the flowers in the spring-time. It was then that her principal festivals occurred. A chief seat of her worship was Cyprus. Additional information on this independent, unmarried goddess is to be found in Sayce's _Patriarchal Palestine_, pp. 218-21. 3. APOLLO (Greek Ἀπόλλων), son of Zeus and Leto, brother of Artemis, portrayed with flowing hair, as ever being young. Apollo appears originally as a god of _light_. As the god of spiritual light, his festivals are all in spring and summer. He is one of the great gods of the Greeks, and next to Zeus the most widely worshipped. Josephus speaks of a Temple of Apollo at Gaza, 96 B.C. (_Antiq._, xiii. 13, 3), at the time when the city fell into the hands of Alexander Jannæus. "The Senators, who were in all five hundred, fled to Apollo's Temple (for this attack happened to be made as they were sitting), whom Alexander slew." The worship of Apollo is to be traced to Seleucid influence, for Apollo was the ancestral god of the Seleucids, and a great favourite with them. 3. PERSEPHONE (Latin Proserpina), daughter of Zeus and the earth-goddess Demeter, the goddess of the lower world.[56] Her special name in Attic cult is CORÊ, lit. "the maiden." Persephone is emblematic of vegetable life that comes and goes with the changing seasons. Her festivals were celebrated in spring, and after the harvest. The pomegranate was Proserpine's symbol, and the pigeon and the cock were sacred to her. 5. HECATE, a Greek moon-goddess, perhaps of non-Hellenic origin. Her appearance is frightful. She is generally represented as a daughter of Perses. As a goddess of the lower world she was the patroness of all enchanters and enchantresses, who were her disciples and protegés. 6. HEROON. THE HIEREION. Heroon is the shrine of a hero, from ἥρως, a hero. Hesiod reserves this name for mortals of divine origin, who are therefore also known as demigods. 7. THE TYCHE, identified with the Roman Fortuna. A female deity--the daughter of Zeus. She was of more importance in Italy than among the Greeks. In Greek mythology she was originally the goddess of chance. In the course of time she came to be extensively worshipped as a goddess of prosperity, who had cities under her special protection. Meyer (pp. 122 and 158), refers to the Tyche as a familiar figure upon Gazæan coins, having a woman's head, with a turreted crown consisting of three towers, one of which is pierced with a door, and with a veil over the back of her head. The reverse side of the coin of Antoninus in Plate XI, No. 7, of De Saulcy's _Numismatique de la Palestine_, is a good representation of the Gaza Tyche. 8. THE MARNEION. The Temple of Marnas is spoken of as the Marneion, a home of the city's god. Marnas was the Baal of Gaza.