Aphrodisianus
a Persian, wrote a description of the east in Greek, a fragment of which is given by Du Cange. (Ad Zonar. p. 50.) An extract from this work is said to exist in the royal library at Vienna. He also wrote an historical work on the Virgin Mary. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. xi. p. 578.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.