Aphrodisianus

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.^[1][2] 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.^[3]

Aphrodisianus also wrote a historical work on the Christian Mary.^[4] Some speculate that this Aphrodisianus was a different author from the one who wrote Description of the East.^[3][5]

 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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