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Aphrodisias

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Aphrodisias was a Greek city of Caria in southwestern Asia Minor (modern Geyre, Turkey), celebrated for its sanctuary of Aphrodite and its school of sculpture. It was the home of Chariton, author of Chaereas and Callirhoe, generally regarded as the earliest surviving Greek prose romance.

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Ideas shaped here

Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Aphrodisias. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.