Anaxarete
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In Greek mythology, Anaxarete was a Cypriot maiden who refused the advances of a shepherd name Iphis. He killed himself in despair but Anaxarete was still not moved, so Aphrodite changed her to stone.

Ovid XIV, 698.

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