What is the meaning of Eshmun?
The name Eshmun appears to mean ‘the Eighth’. The Neo-Platonist Damascius also stated. The Asclepius in Beirut is neither a Greek nor an Egyptian, but some native Phoenician divinity. Is Astarte Aphrodite? In later times Astarte was worshipped in Syria and Canaan. Her worship spread to Cyprus, where she may have been merged with an…