(ξείνη/xeínē, 'stranger'). According to Hdt. 2,112 term for a manifestation of Aphrodite, with a temple in Memphis. Presumably it was a cult of the Syrian goddess Astarte, i.e. 'the Stranger', who had been worshipped there since the Eighteenth Dynasty [1. 45]. It is uncertain whether it can be identified with a temple of Aphrodite or Selene mentioned in Str. 17,1,31 [2. 136].
Bibliography
1 A. B. Lloyd, Herodotus, Book II, Commentary 99-182, 1988
2 J. Yoyotte, P. Charvet, Strabon, Le voyage en Égypte (transl. with comm.), 1997.