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Aphrodision

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Ryan Horne

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Feb 01, 2019 04:25 PM — History

Located outside the city walls of Pergamon, this temple, according to an inscription (OGIS 273-9), was supposedly the site of a victory of Attalos I over the Tolistogi, Galatians, and Antiochus Hierax. it was likely later destroyed by Philip V.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/30893806

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
39.1312133333, 27.1845303333

Locations:

None

Names:

Ἀφροδίσιον (Aphrodision: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)

Aphrodision makes connections with:

Aphrodision part of (administrative) Pergamum (330 BC - 30 BC)

Aphrodision receives connections from:

None

Place type:
temple

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Ryan Horne, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aphrodision: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/30893806> [accessed: 14 July 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/30893806 |title=Places: 30893806 (Aphrodision) |author=Horne, R. |accessdate=July 14, 2020 1:40 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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