Aphrodision (mountain)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II

Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott

Last modified Sep 04, 2022 09:42 AM — History

Aphrodision.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570094

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.8319217071, 21.9031289097

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 930 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ἀφροδίσιον (Aphrodision: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Aphrodision (mountain) makes connections with:

None

Aphrodision (mountain) receives connections from:

None

Place type:
mountain, map label location

References:

Evidence:

Paus. (Spiro: Perseus) 8.25.1

See Further:

BAtlas 58 B2 Aphrodision M.

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 B2 Aphrodision M.

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Aphrodision

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Suggested citation:
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Aphrodision (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570094> [accessed: 27 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570094 |title=Places: 570094 (Aphrodision (mountain)) |author=Reger, G., J. McK. Camp II |accessdate=April 27, 2025 3:49 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Brady Kiesling says:

Jul 18, 2024 04:01 AM

Pausanias refers to the drymos, oak forest, of Aphrodision, https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573102 but does not mention the mountain.