Anaxarete

In Greek mythology, Anaxarete (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξαρέτη means 'excellent princess') was a maiden of Cyprus, "a proud princess in the line of Teucer's descendants",[1] who refused the advances of a shepherd named Iphis.

Iphis' advances were described in Ovid's Metamorphoses in the following paragraph: Anaxarete spurned him and mocked his feelings until he cried in despair and hanged himself on her doorstep.

When she mocked his funeral, calling it pitiful, Aphrodite turned her into a stone statue.

[2] According to Ovid, the statue was preserved at Salamis in Cyprus, in the temple of Venus Prospiciens.

[2] A similar tale is told by Antoninus Liberalis, although he names the maiden Arsinoë, and her admirer Arceophon.