Aphrodisianus (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδισιανός) was a Persian man who wrote in Ancient Greek a work called Description of the East (or A Picture of the World), a fragment of which is given by the 17th century philologist Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange. An extract from this work is said to exist in the royal library at Vienna (now the Austrian National Library).
He was also quoted as a reference in the Chronicle of Hippolytus of Thebes and in the anonymous work known as the Ravenna Cosmography.
Aphrodisianus also wrote a historical work on the Christian Mary. Some speculate that this Aphrodisianus was a different author from the one who wrote Description of the East.
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- Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Ad Zonar. p. 50
- Cooley, William Desborough (1830). The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery. Vol. 1. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. p. 176. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1843). "Aphrodisianus". The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Vol. 3. Longman, Brown. p. 143. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- Johann Albert Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca xi. p. 578
- Gerardus Vossius, De Historicis Graecis, p. 394, ed. Anton Westermann
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Aphrodisianus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 224.
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